Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy, Volume One).

Naguib Mahfouz.

ISBN 10: 0385264666 / ISBN 13: 9780385264662

Published by Doubleday: Anchor Books, New York, NY, 1991

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Very Good in Wraps: shows moderate wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; the binding is slightly cocked off square; the expected light tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding remains secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A hcarefully-used copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor cosmetic imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.25 x 6 x 1.2 inches). 498 pages. Translated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E Kenny. Language: English. Weight: 22.5 ounces. First Edition Thus (1991), 25th Printing. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Book One of the Cairo Trilogy. Naguib Mahfouz's wonderful novel Palace Walk was originally published in Arabic in 1956, and not translated to English until 1990. This is the story of Al-Sayyid Ahmad, a shopkeeper in Cairo during and after World War I, his wife, Amina, and the lives and courtships of their several children. The novel offers profound insight into a different culture and religion. Al-Sayyid has a dual personality -- petty tyrant at home, with his wife and children; bon vivant and man-about-town with his friends. Because of the harsh sexual segregation in his traditional Arab home, his wife is none the wiser, but his older sons learn of first hand then come to emulate their father's lifestyle. Although the subject matter is "small" -- a middle-class family's domestic issues -- this is unquestionably a "big" book, raising issues of religion, class, gender, and integrity. Mahfouz is a truly gifted writer, and conveys his characters with humor, insight, clarity and compassion. First Edition Thus (1991), 25th Printing. Seller Inventory # 57103

Bibliographic Details

Title: Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy, Volume One).

Publisher: Doubleday: Anchor Books, New York, NY

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Paperback

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author:

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.