BBC TV's Tomorrow's World Vol.1: The Last Fronteir

Raymond Baxter, James Burke, Edited by Michael Latham

ISBN 10: 0552995827 / ISBN 13: 9780552995825

Editore: Corgi, Carousel Books A Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Ealing, London, UK, 1974

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Originally published as the first part of Tomorrow's World, Second Volume by the BBC. Firmly bound and clean inside with tanning and marks to page edges, light handling wear. Codice articolo 061960

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Titolo: BBC TV's Tomorrow's World Vol.1: The Last ...

Casa editrice: Corgi, Carousel Books A Division of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Ealing, London, UK

Data di pubblicazione: 1974

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Fair

Edizione: First Thus

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Riassunto:

Sugar Street, the climactic conclusion to Mafhouz's masterpiece trilogy, is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes.

But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. One grandson is a communist activist, another a Muslim fundamentalist, both working for what they believe will be a better world. And Ridwan, the inheritor of his father's charms, launches a political career aided by a homosexual affair with prominent politician.

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Naguib Mahfouz was most prominent literary figure in the Arab world of the Twentieth Century, best known for his Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Walk), which became an international bestseller. He was born in Cairo in 1911 and lived in the suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters for the rest of his life. He published more than thirty novels as well as many collections of short stories, plays and screenplays. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Arab writer to win it. In 1994, after the publication of a novel that led him into trouble with Egypt's religious authorities, an attempt was made on his life, but he died peacefully in 2006, aged 94.