Margarita Monroy Monroy itibaren Semyonovskiy, Bryanskaya oblast', Rusya, 243427 itibaren Semyonovskiy, Bryanskaya oblast', Rusya, 243427

Not as compelling a storyline as PLaR for me, but still beautifully written and enjoyable.

The Cairo Trilogy is one long novel, and I'm happy to have made the journey with this family during the decades of 1920' to 1950's. Just having a glimpse of the cultural references, political figures, and how world events were perceived by a particular Egyptian middle class family is very satisfying, and I want to read more Arabic novels. Many, many things I really did not understand about these novels, such as the role of the interior monologues, the contrast in the honorific speech and the unspoken thoughts, etc., but having some context about how the Muslim Brotherhood was formed and what it meant in 1920's and 1930's is certainly riveting.