Palace Walk

By - Maḥfūẓ, Najīb

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Black Swan, London, 1994

ISBN 10 - 0552995800

ISBN 13 - 9780552995801

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Egypt--Cairo

Shelf No - 10

Call Number - 892.736 MAH

Physical Description - 498 pages

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A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper, runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will. 'Writing worthy of a Tolstoy, a Flaubert or a Proust' Independent 'Luminous...All the magic, mystery and suffering of Egypt in the 1920s are conveyed on a human scale." New York Times Book Review

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