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His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary egyptian politics and culture more about naguib mahfouz. The father, ahmad abd aljawad, is somber and tyrannical with his wife and children, but at night seeks pleasure in the aesthetic and erotic. Free download or read online palace walk pdf epub book. The main characters of this fiction, northern africa. Naguib mahfouz was born in cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. Originally published in 1956 in arabic, palace walk is the first part of trilogy written by nobel prize winner naguib mahfouz. Palace walk, palace of desire, sugar street by naguib mahfouz. The cairo trilogy, volume 1 enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The novels of the cairo trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch alsayyid ahmad abd aljawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self. Palace walk is set in cairo, and covers the time between 1917 and the egyptian revolution of 1919. Most of the book, however, is set inside a single house, both a haven and an isolated island. Then, in 1956, palace walk, the first volume of the cairo trilogy, came out, to be followed a year later by the other two volumes, palace of desire and sugar street. Buy a cheap copy of palace walk book by naguib mahfouz.
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