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From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and “a storyteller of the first order” (Vanity Fair) comes an epic novel that portrays five generationsof one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptianhistory.

Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families fromthe arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged inalphabetical order. This highly experimental device produces a kind of biographicaldictionary, whose individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of lifein Cairo from a range of perspectives. The characters include representatives ofevery class and human type and as the intricate family saga unfolds, a powerful pictureof a society in transition emerges. This is a tale of change and continuity, of thedeath of a traditional way of life and the road to independence and beyond, seenthrough the eyes of Egypt’s citizens. Naguib Mahfouz’s last chronicle of Cairo isboth an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute to the Egyptian spirit.