Palace Walk

Najīb Maḥfūẓ

Doubleday, 1991 - Fiction - 498 pages

The bestselling first volume of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy is being published in paperback to coincide with the hardcover release of Palace of Desire, the second book. His "masterwork" is the engrossingh saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Eqypt'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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Palace Walk; Anchor books; Volume 1 of Cairo trilogy
• Author: Najīb Maḥfūẓ
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Doubleday, 1991
• ISBN: 0385264666, 9780385264662
• Length: 498 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Sagas