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| Plot Summary of Sugar Street |
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""Sugar Street", the third novel in the Cairo Trilogy by the 1988 Egyptian Nobel Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, follow the family of Al-Sayyid Ahmad and his wife, Amina, into the generation of his grandsons.
During the years from 1930 to 1952, the grandsons marry; one, a modern, working woman, the other, his cousin, a traditional Muslim woman who dies in childbirth. At the same time, Egypt, once a democracy, sucumbs to nationalist party ribalries, and dissolves once more, into a manarchic dictatorship.
In the novel, the patriach and his wife die along with their friends and traditions of their age group, . Their philosopher son, Kamal,cannot bring himself to marry the young sister of his romantic love, . He sees his nephews imprisoned by the military for their beliefs, .
Mahfouz depigts the modernization of Caio simultajeously with the decline of Egypt's dreams of a democracy. "
Betty-Jeanne Korson, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Inside culture (main char)
- Arab
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father (or standin)
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Outside culture (society)
- Arabic
Ethnic/regional/gender life
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 9 ()
Africa
Yes
Kind of Africa:
- Arabic Africa
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- significantly more dialog than descript
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