Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) ebook

Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) by Naguib Mahfouz

Palace Walk: Cairo Trilogy (1) Naguib Mahfouz ebook
ISBN: 0385264666, 9780385264662
Format: lit
Page: 566
Publisher: Anchor

The novels were titled with the street names Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. The trilogy comprises three books, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street. Mahfouz I found it difficult to absorb myself in their lives. Instead, pick up Palace Walk, the first book of his Cairo Trilogy, written in the 1950s, and submerge yourself in the interior of family life in that Egyptian city. One of Mahfouz's monumental work is Cairo Trilogy of 15,00 pages. Dare I say that it reminded me of the infamous Kristin Lavransdatter… .. The first in a trilogy that follows an Egyptian family through several generations and charts their course through a rapidly changing culture and country, Palace Walk was a fascinating and frustrating read for me. Three lucky readers will each win one of three books that make up The Cairo Trilogy , arguably Mahfouz's most famous work. Volume I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. As I liked Mahfouz's book so much more. I just found it somewhat amusing at the start. I'm actually going to try to stop comparing The Cairo Trilogy to Kristin L. A national best-seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypts occupation by British forces in the early 1900s. "The Cairo Trilogy" --Palace of Desire, Palace Walk, and Sugar Street -- is usually considered Mahfouz's finest work; I enjoyed it very much.