ISBN-13: 9781841593050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 632 str.
Featuring titles taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth, this trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952.