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Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) by Naguib Mahfouz

Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) Naguib Mahfouz ebook
Publisher: Anchor
Page: 566
ISBN: 0385264666, 9780385264662
Format: lit

A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypts occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. Palace Walk, the first of the Cairo Trilogy, was read for the Top 100 Books Reading Challenge, the Chunkster Challenge and the Africa Literature Reading Challenge. The northern end of the street known as “ Bayn Al Qasrayn” “Between the two Palaces” is the setting for the first volume of famous writer Naguib Mahfouz's moving Cairo Trilogy Palace Walk. Past while has been dedicated to books with an Egyptian theme, including Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Olivia Manning's Levant Trilogy (what a super and sadly neglected writer she is) and Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk, the first in the Cairo Trilogy. One of Mahfouz's monumental work is Cairo Trilogy of 15,00 pages. Ahmad sounds like a man I would not want to live with! At the end of this week I'm leaving on a long planned trip to Egypt, one that will take me from the Great Pyramid at Giza in the north to the temple of Abu Simbel in the south, from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt. Novelist Naghib Mahfouz, the man who put the Arabic novel on the map, was the most obscure and pretentious name on the list, so I grabbed the first two volumes in the Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk and Palace of Desire. The trilogy comprises three books, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. I am now a new follower of your blog. I now want to get to them as soon as possible due to your great review. Please stop by mine sometime and give it your good two cents for I could use the knowledge of someone like you. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists And with that in mind, I selected the first book of his Cairo Trilogy, entitled Palace Walk (Arabic: بيÙ� القصريÙ� Bayn al-qasrayn). I have this book on my shelves, as well as the two others in the series. Three lucky readers will each win one of three books that make up The Cairo Trilogy , arguably Mahfouz's most famous work. John Steinbeck; Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz; Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer; Bel Canto, Ann Patchett; The History of Love, Nicole Kraus; A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines; Native Son, Richard Wright; The Memory I love this exercise! Thank you so much for the wonderful post. The novels were titled with the street names Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. Story, I kept for a different translation. Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy.