2 Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. The second part, Palace of Desire, begins its story five years later in 1924, witness to the British negotiation with Saad Zaghlul of the Wafd Party. Palace Walk 1 ( Arabic:, romanized : Bayn al-Qurayn, lit.

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk, the first part of his Cairo Trilogy, begins in 1917 during the First World War, ending in 1919 with the outbreak of the nationalist revolution. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, 'Palace Of Desire' is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires. The second volume of the highly acclaimed 'Cairo Trilogy' from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. 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. Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouzs magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is. 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. 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.

Palace of Desire by Naguib Mahfouz