Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.

Palace Walk (Arabic: بين القصرين, Romanized: Bayn al-Quṣrayn, lit. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It began in 1917, during World War I, and ended in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt from 1917 to 1919.

Product Details

Publisher: Anchor Books First Edition December 1990

Language: English

ISBN:0385264666

ISBN13:9780385264662

Paperback: 498 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Condition: Very Good

Trade Paperback, in very good condition, clean, unmarked, and unbent.

About The Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he has been influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to his most recent experimental novels. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lived in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters.