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Palace of DesirePalace of Desire is the second 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. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move
Palace of Desire is the second 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. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 11/29/2011
ISBN: 9780307947116
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.32w x 1.00d
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