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

What other book is a MUST read for 2012? She wakes at this hour every night to serve her husband as he comes home The al-Jawad residence, we are told, is at the intersection of Palace Walk and Coppersmith Street. If I've enraged both sides of the Huntingtonian divide, then I'll have done my job. Later, poolside at my hotel, I began to read Mahfouz's Palace Walk, the first volume of the 1500-page Cairo Trilogy (1957-1959), the saga of three generations of the Abd Al-Jawad family. Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1 by Naguib Mahfouz. A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken; Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1 by Naguib Mahfouz. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire, about a Cairo family in the 1920s; #2 in the Cairo Trilogy. Setting: Cairo, al-Gamaleya-a section of the old city, sometime just before 1919. This location is important to the structure of the novel. The al-Jawad residence, a middle class home. I didn't get as Looking forward to your review of Palace Walk… will you be reading the rest of the Cairo trilogy? Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen.”It's a great book on life and all the things that can happen even if you don't plan for it. Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy begins with Amina waking at midnight. Palace of Desire is an exercise in this thought experiment, as it follows the al-Jawad family, in Nobel Prize-winner Nagib Mahfuz's second book in his Cairo Trilogy. Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, about a Muslim family in Cairo during the early twentieth century; #1 in the Cairo Trilogy. Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt by Normandi Ellis and Gloria Taylor Brown. I am feeling better, although I'm still very tired) May has been a frustrating month, reading-wise.