Palace walk

by Maḥfūẓ, Najīb

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Title Statements

Full title :Palace walk / Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny.

Summary

The engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900's. Arabic title: Bayn al-Qasrayn. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Palace Walk is the first 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. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons -- the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1990, ©1989.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Doubleday
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990, ©1989.

The Physical Object

Description:498 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0385264658, 9780385264655, 0385269358, 9780385269353, 0385264666, 9780385264662
oclc:ocm20258737
LC Classification:PJ7846.A46
Dewey Decimal:892/.736

Subjects

Arabic fiction Arabic fiction -- 20th century. -- Egypt Cairo (Egypt) -- Fiction Egypt Egypt -- Cairo Egyptian fiction (Arabic) -- Translatio… Families Families -- Fiction. -- Egypt Fiction Fiction in Arabic Historical fiction Muslims Muslims -- Fiction. -- Egypt Parables Translation -- Arabic