Sugar Street - Cairo Trilogy, Bk 3 Author:Naguib Mahfouz, William Maynard Hutchins (Translator), Angele Botros Samaan (Translator) Near the end of his life, an ill family patriarch surveys his family -- son Kamal, in love with a prostitute; and his grandchildren, among them a communist activist, a Muslim fundamentalist, and a politician -- as they face middle age.