Palace of desire /
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. Sequel to "Palace walk" and second story in "The Cai...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Doubleday,
[1991]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. in the U.S. |
| Series: | Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006. Cairo trilogy ;
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| Online Access: | Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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. Sequel to "Palace walk" and second story in "The Cairo trilogy." |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Qaṣr al-shawq. Originally publihed in Arabic in 1957. |
| Physical Description: | 422 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0385264674 : 9780385264679 : |