Sugar Street Myths 'A book that could save

'A book that could save lives' SPECTATOR

Elaine Iljon Foreman

and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today

flesh and bone

Sugar Street Myths 'A book that could saveNaguib Mahfouz In this final volume of Naguib Mahfouz's masterpiece trilogy, al Sayyid Ahmad is aging, ill, and confined behind the mashrabiya that once confined his wife. But in his grandsons we see a modern Egypt emerging: one becomes a communist activist, another a Muslim fundamentalist, both working for what they believe will be a better world. And a third launches a promising political career abetted by a homosexual relationship with a prominent