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Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: Anchor

It was a very long book, but it was also very good. I began with Palace Walk, and haven't yet read the others. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire, about a Cairo family in the 1920s; #2 in the Cairo Trilogy. Westerners have trouble understanding how Middle Easterners THINK. We are introduced to Al Sayyid Ahmad Abd Al Jawad, a conservative patriarch and his family-Amina, the subservient wife who doesn't dare lift her eyes to her husband despite his With one arm in a cast, she is afraid that Al Sayyid Ahmad will find out about her secret excursion to the mosque but her children persuade her to cover up the incident with a small lie that she broke her arm in the midst of a household activity. Through the story of an Egyptian family After completing his secondary education, Mahfouz entered the King Fouad I University, now known as the University of Cairo, where he studied philosophy, graduating in 1934. I have been slowly ploughing through the Cairo Trilogy by Naquib Mahfouz, relishing it like a succulent meal. Also in August I finally finished Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk, the first in the Cairo trilogy series. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, about a Muslim family in Cairo during the early twentieth century; #1 in the Cairo Trilogy. The Palace Walk (note the original Arabic title literally translates to Between the Two Palaces) is the first of a trilogy titled The Cairo Trilogy (written 1956-1957), which goes on to include Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. Just recently, a friend recommended I read the Cairo trilogy.