Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2 by Naguib Mahfouz (English) Paperb

The Nile on eBay\n\n FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE\n\n \n\nPalace of Desire\nby\nNaguib Mahfouz\n\nContinuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.\n\nFORMAT\nPaperback\nLANGUAGE\nEnglish\nCONDITION\nBrand New\n\nPublisher Description\nPalace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.\n\nThe 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 br;