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Palace Walk

The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

By Naguib Mahfouz

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Part of The Cairo Trilogy

Part of The Cairo Trilogy

Paperback $18.00

Nov 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780307947109

Ebook $12.99

Jun 15, 2016 | ISBN 9781101974674

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    About Palace Walk

    Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.

    The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.

    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny

    About Palace Walk

    Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt’s occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

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    About Naguib Mahfouz

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his… More about Naguib Mahfouz

    About Naguib Mahfouz

    Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his… More about Naguib Mahfouz

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 29, 2011 | 544 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307947109

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Anchor
    Jun 15, 2016 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9781101974674

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    Praise

    “The alleys, the houses, the palaces and mosques and the people who live among them are evoked as vividly in Mahfouz’s work as the streets of London were conjured up by Dickens.” —Newsweek

    “Rich in psychological insight and cultural observation. . . . A majestic and capacious accomplishment.” —The Boston Globe
     
     “A tale told with great affection, humor, and sensitivity, in a style that in this translation is always accessible and elegant.” —The New York Times Book Review
     
    “Palace Walk is a feast indeed.” —Chicago Tribune

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1988

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