Sugar Street demonstrates how this new time and the vicissitudes of life have taken their toll on the old cohesive family, and is characterized by its fast pace of change and drama. Palace of Desire opens five years later with al-Sayyid 'extracting from his caftan the gold watch', the emblem of Chronometrie time, as a clear indication of a new perception. The eruption of the revolution that brings this first part to a close with the tragic death of Fahmy dislodges the eternal timelessness from its harmony, stability and static continuity. Palace Walk establishes the traditional time with its slow rhythm and static continuity, the rituals and daily chores mark the cyclical time. Palace Walk covers two years in 533 Pages? Palace of Desire four years in 448 pages, and Sugar Street ten years in 330 pages. The expansion of space accompanies the augmentation of time from one novel to the next, but this is ironically marked by the shrinking of narrative. All these loci are inseparable from their times in the narrative.
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