The era of love

Then let the beginning be with the eye woman in her fifties and her only عزت in her sixties, she is a distinguished woman of importance that grows and enlarges over time like a rising city, she owns all the large buildings in the alley; she is wealthy with wide riches... They say she has maintained the glow of youth at fifty; not a single black hair has faded from her hair, and no limb has complained to her, she is solidly built, of medium height, neither overweight nor too thin to be criticized. Is it truly the era of love, or is it the usual sarcasm of نجيب محفوظ from the hatred that people have become, embodied in the novel? Did محفوظ mean by the title the love of الست «عين» for her son, and the love of «بدرية» and «حمدون», and the love of «سيدة» «عزت», and the love of «حمدون» for the theater; or was he mocking the hatred that drove «عزت» to weave a conspiracy for his friend «حمدون» to imprison him for many years? A human tragic novel narrated by نجيب محفوظ with much love and sadness, not devoid of the محفوظian wisdoms spoken on the tongues of its characters, granting you a world in which you merge and are affected to the point of emotion in its events, as if you are part of it, adopting one stance and condemning another, captivated by the شخصية الست «عين», and you remain like this until you see the final scene, which came as a unique human painting only the genius نجيب محفوظ can create.