num_pages: 308
description: Near the end of his life, an ill family patriarch surveys his family--son Kamal, in love with a prostitute; and his grandchildren, among them a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist, and a politician--as they face middle age
language: English
title: Sugar Street
titlecomplete: Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #3)
genres: Classics, Historical, Nobel Prize, Novels, Egypt, Africa, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 8307
places: Cairo
series: The Cairo Trilogy
publisher: Doubleday