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Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy Part 2)

Naguib Mahfouz
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North Africa

Egypt

Era

Post-colonial

Language

Arabic

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Fiction

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The second volume of the Cairo Trilogy follows the al-Jawad family into the 1920s, as the patriarch struggles with aging and religious awakening while his sons forge paths between tradition and nationalist politics.

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Central volume of the trilogy that won Mahfouz the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature

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The second volume of the Cairo Trilogy follows the al-Jawad family into the 1920s, as the patriarch struggles with aging and religious awakening while his sons forge paths between tradition and nationalist politics. Central volume of the trilogy that won Mahfouz the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature

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