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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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high quality narrative writing truly Noble Prize winner. A must read. A reflection on the hearts and minds of an era in Egypt.

must read high quality narrative,

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A wise book from a master author, I will definitely read the other two parts of his Cairo Trilogy

Narrator brought the characters to life, I feel I knew them all by the end

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