Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

<p><i>Palace Walk</i> 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.</p> <p>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. <i>Palace Walk</i> 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.</p> <p>Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The bestselling first volume of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy is being published in paperback to coincide with the hardcover release of Palace of Desire, the second book. His "masterwork" is the engrossingh saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Eqypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. </p>

Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz  

ISBN 10: 0307947106
ISBN 13: 9780307947109
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Publication: 11/29/2011