by Naguib Mahfouz · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552995801
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«Palace Walk» is the historical novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Random House in paperback (512 pages, in English).
In Cairo occupied by the British after the First World War, the novel follows the Al Jawad family: Ahmad, a merchant who rules his household with an iron discipline. His wife and daughters live secluded; his three sons, very different from one another, grow up in the shadow of his authority. A story about the tension between tradition and the desire for independence.
It is the first instalment of the Cairo Trilogy; it was originally written in Arabic and published in 1956. Its author won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century literary classics, especially those who want to learn about Egyptian society under British rule.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
