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Palace Walk
  • Published: 1 November 1994
  • ISBN: 9780552995801
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $32.99
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Palace Walk

From the Nobel Prizewinning author

  • Naguib Mahfouz
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1 Nov 1994
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15 June 2016
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The first volume in the celebrated Cairo Trilogy.

THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR.

'A masterpiece' - The Times
'The Arab Tolstoy' - Simon Sebag Montefiore
'Shamelessly entertaining' - Guardian
'Luminous' - New York Times

A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family.

Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will.

The first book of the classic Cairo Trilogy, the greatest and best loved work by the 20th century's most important Arab novelist.
  • Published: 1 November 1994
  • ISBN: 9780552995801
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

Praise for Palace Walk

It is Mahfouz's wonderful ability to delineate human beings from their outer appearances which gives Palace Walk its universal appeal. I shall read it again and again

Guardian

Naguib Mahfouz's wonderfully readable family saga provides a riveting and accurate portrait of Egyptian society

Bookseller

There is nothing in world literature quite like Palace Walk... This is writing worthy of a Tolstoy, a Flaubert or a Proust

Independent

A masterpiece

The Times

His masterpiece

The Sunday Times

Naguib Mahfouz's CAIRO TRILOGY puts all contemporary writers in the shade. He is the Arab Tolstoy

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Twitter

Luminous... All the magic, mystery and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale

The New York Times Book Review