cover image Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy (3)

Sugar Street: Cairo Trilogy (3)

Naguib Mahfouz, Najib Mahfuz. Anchor Books, $16 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-385-26470-9

Nobel laureate Mahfouz's third volume of his Cairo Trilogy, a stunning portrait of a family in dissolution, mirrors its setting--an Egypt that is adjusting to the modern world. (Jan.)