Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
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Original title | السكرية |
Translator | William M. Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Angele Botros Samaan |
Language | Modern Standard Arabic |
Series | Cairo Trilogy |
Genre | Novel, family saga, historical fiction |
Set in | Cairo, 1935–1944 |
Publisher | Maktabat Misr |
Publication date | 1957 |
Publication place | Egypt |
Published in English | 1992 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
OCLC | 63163338 |
892.736 | |
LC Class | PJ7846.A46 S913 |
Preceded by | Palace of Desire |
Sugar Street (Arabic: السكرية, romanized: as-Sukkariyya), first published in 1957, is the third novel in the Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. In this third novel, the main character Kamal, the youngest son of Ahmad 'Abd al-Jawad who is a young child in the first and a student in the second, is a teacher.