Palace of Desire
New York : Anchor Books, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: Second Anchor books edition.
Description: 448 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Series: Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006. Cairo trilogy ; 2.
ISBN:
9780307947116
Originally published in Arabic in 1957 as Qasr al-Shawq.
English translation copyright 1991 by The American University in Cairo Press.
English translation copyright 1991 by The American University in Cairo Press.