Palace of desire /
Naguib Mahfouz ; translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny and Olive E. Kenny.
- 422 pages ; 20 cm.
- Cairo trilogy ; 2 .
- Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006. Cairo trilogy ; 2. .
First published in Arabic in 1957 as Qasr al-Shawq.
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.