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Palace Walk

Cairo Trilogy Series, Book 1

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Palace Walk

By: Naguib Mahfouz, William Maynard Hutchins - translator, Olive E. Kenny - translator
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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Book I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

©1956 Naguib Mahfouz (P)2019 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Urban Middle East

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Quite difficult to begin with but well worth the effort.
Really excellent story and narration.

Recommended

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Thoroughly enjoyed the story and wish that other volumes were available on audible.

The narrator did a good job overall but I did wonder why they didn’t choose an Arabic speaker for this job given that he was even badly mispronouncing the author’s name!

A great story by a Nobel prize winner

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Realisation of a family in Cairo 1916-1919. A really great novel particularly accessible to non-Egyptians because the author is neutral and compassionate amongst the characters and explains them all.

Great novel

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This wonderful book takes you into a family living in Cairo during the first World War when Egyptian Nationalism was beginning to blossom behind the scenes. The family is ruled by a tyrant father but nevertheless enjoys the full complement of births, marriages and, dramatically, deaths.

Fascinating tapestry of life in Cairo

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I reread this amazing book and got even more from it at every level - cultural, spiritual and historical. My only slight criticism, having heard it read by someone else as an RNIB talking book, is that the reader sometimes goes a little over the top involune and in long passages this can grow just a little tiresome. Perhaps a remastering could even the dynamics out just a bit. The second and third volumes lack something in comparison, and theexcellentBBC radio production is available, but it would still be worth Audible recording them .

Great to re-read this wonderful book.

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