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.
"The trilogy recounts, with Tolstoyan assurance, the lives, marriages and disruptive extramarital passions of a Muslim family of the middling merchant class.(.) For the American reader, Mahfouz's writing produces a simultaneous double-reading.Kenny, and Angele Botros SamaanĪ- : impressive family saga, if ultimately possibly too sweeping Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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