num_pages: 320
description: Sugar Street is the third and concluding volume of the celebrated Cairo Trilogy, which brings the story of Al-Sayid Ahmad and his family up to the middle of the twentieth century.Aging and ill, the family patriarch surveys the world from his housewares's latticed balcony, as his long-suffering wife once did. While his children face middle age, it is through his grandsons that we see a modern Egypt emerging.
language: English
title: Sugar Street
titlecomplete: Sugar Street
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Historical, Africa, Novels, Literature, Egypt, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 8307
places: Cairo
series: The Cairo Trilogy
publisher: Black Swan