The era of love

Then let the beginning be the eye's five and fifty and her only عزت in the sixth, and she is a distinguished woman with a matter that grows and enlarges over time like a rising city; she owns all the large buildings in the neighborhood; she is wealthy and extensively rich... They say she has maintained the glow of youth at fifty; not a black hair has faded from her hair, and no limb has complained to her. She is solidly built, of medium height, neither overweight nor thin to be reproached. Is it truly the age of love, or is it the usual sarcasm of Naguib Mahfouz from the hatred that people have become, embodied in the novel? Did Mahfouz mean by the title the love of the lady "Ayn" for her son, and the love of "Badria" and "Hamdoun," and the love of "Sayeda" for "Ezzat," and the love of "Hamdoun" for the theater; or was he mocking the hatred that drove "Ezzat" to weave a conspiracy against his friend "Hamdoun" to imprison him for many years? A human tragic novel narrated by Naguib Mahfouz with much love and sadness, not devoid of the Mahfouzian wisdoms spoken on the tongues of its characters, granting you a world you immerse yourself in and are affected by to the point of emotion in its events, as if you are part of it, adopting one stance and condemning another, captivated by the character of the lady "Ayn," and remaining so until you see the final scene, which came as a unique human painting that only the genius Naguib Mahfouz can create. Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publishing and Distribution House