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Continuing 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.

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... Read Full Overview

The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams... Read Full Overview

The second volume of the highly acclaimed??Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the??Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling??drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight,??Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable??story of the violent clash between ideals and??realities,... Read Full Overview