Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo)

Review "The highest achievement of "The Cairo Trilogy" [is] the creation of memorable characters whose circumstances of life are unimaginably remote from our own, but whose aspirations are the same. "The Cairo Trilogy" extends our knowledge of life; it also confirms it." -"Boston Globe" "Luminous...All the magic, mystery and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale." -"New York Times Book Review" "The alleys, the houses,