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Palace of Desire
Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz
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"Palace of Desire "is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz s magnificentCairo 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. In "Palace of Desire," his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny."
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Cathy12
Cathy12
Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz
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Making my way through the second column of this classic trilogy. I love seeing the world through eyes so different from my own. #chunkster

RaimeyGallant Welcome back! #litsywelcomewagon 7y
RaimeyGallant Also, a few days ago, I asked everyone who was willing to follow back newer users to comment on a post. If you're interested, about 240 people have so far. To find the post, you can either scroll down my page, or use the magnifying glass icon, then select tags, then type: DirectUsersToThisTagButDontPostOrCommentWithIt ...Let me know if you decide to try it, because I'm excited to know how it works out for people :) 7y
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Leftcoastzen
Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz
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#setinthemiddleeast day 26 #reallifereading "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions ."

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Palace of Desire | Naguib Mahfouz
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Akeela: “This story tackles the struggle between embracing modernity and trying to hold on to traditions. It's about a family in Cairo in the early 1900s, navigating their way through a revolution. Each family member‘s story is told from their perspective. They all have double identities and they're all flawed in some way. That's different from Western literature, where one character is often put on a pedestal. It makes them more relatable."

Cathy12 The Cairo Trilogy recently came out as an ebook, which I have been waiting for for years. 8y
Anabnieto Absolutely wonderful. Tough reading. I have been in Cairo many times and I have seen the places and people he has written about. Then it works as non fiction to me. Whomever is into this should read children of the ally. One of the books for my desert island 8y
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