The Cairo Trilogy is a three-part family saga, centred around al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family - his wife, his children (three sons and two daughters), and eventually his grandchildren. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.
Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Three generations of a Cairene family come to life through 1,500 pages" - Anton Shammas, The New York Review of Books In the Trilogy, however, the ground bass also is abundantly present. Most of what has been translated from Mahfouz (except for the novel Midaq Alley perhaps) are works limited to the figure: it takes a great deal of charity on the part of the reader to enjoy these superb, albeit unaccompanied, melodies in their English translation. "Even now, thirty years later, the Trilogy is seen by young Arab writers as a wall of China that stands in their way.Mahfouz is so absorbed in each scene, so effortlessly able to assume with the great story-tellers that the tale he is telling is the only tale worth hearing at the moment, that the reader, as it were, must become a member of the family." - George Kearns, The Hudson Review Scandals produced by the sexual obsessions of father and sons (.) threaten the private stability of the patriarchal household, the public respectability all-important to its perilous social standing, indeed the stability of traditional Muslim structures themselves. One gets caught up in this Muslim family's concerns.
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