Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz
A Cairo patriarch rules his family as a nation stirs against empire.
The opening volume of the Cairo Trilogy follows the household of the tyrannical merchant al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad in Cairo during and after the 1919 uprising against British rule. Mahfouz brought European realism's scope to the Arabic novel, mapping a family and a nation in transition. The trilogy anchored his 1988 Nobel, the first for an Arabic writer, and remains a reference point for the modern Egyptian novel.
Its legacy. Mahfouz was the first Arabic-language Nobel laureate.
- Author
- Naguib Mahfouz
- First published
- 1956
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- East, Southern and North African Literature
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