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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 892.736 EAN: 9780385264662 ISBN: 0385264666 Label: Anchor Manufacturer: Anchor Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: December 01, 1990 Publisher: Anchor Release Date: December 01, 1990 Studio: Anchor Editorial Review: Product Description: Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Thoroughly European NovelBuddenbrooks in a fez, Little Women in purdah, Palace Walk describes exotic settings and even more exotic customs entirely in the borrowed structures of a European novel of 'generations,' in which the eternal dilemma of marrying off the young unsettles the comfortable mindsets of the old. Anthony Trollope did it with far greater polish, humanity, and insight in "Orley Farm", a novel of about the same bulk. This is my first encounter with the Nobel Prize winning Naguib Mahfouz, and for that reason ... Read More Rating:  - `Wealth is one thing, generosity is another.'This novel is the first of `The Cairo Trilogy' by Naguib Mahfouz. The other novels are `Palace of Desire' and `Sugar Street'. To open this novel is to enter a world that will be foreign to many of us both because of the period (early 20th century) the location (Cairo) and the customs. This is a novel where the journey may well be far more interesting than the destination and time is required in order to absorb the experiences. The setting for this journey is both of a country moving ... Read More Rating: - Mahfouz Rewards PatienceNaguib Mahfouz, the only Arabic language writer ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, begins Palace Walk with Amina, the devout and devoted Muslim wife of al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad patiently waiting for her husband to return home from another long night of drinking, music, and carousing with his male friends and pursuing illicit sexual relations in Cairo's clubs and cafes. Mahfouz thus immediately establishes Amina's willing and absolute subservience to her husband. Mahfouz takes the next several ... Read More Rating: - Palace WalkBook in nice condition, did take a long time to get here, but otherwise satisfactory service. Rating:  - boringto be honest i couldnt even finish the book. I bought all 3 ( cairo trilogy). Boring |
