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Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. There is no doubt that Palace Walk played a big part in earning him this prestigious award. I’m so glad I decided to buy all three books in his Cairo Trilogy, as I will immediately continue the saga in the next novel, Palace of Desire.

Palace Walk centered on the family of Mr. (al-Sayyid) Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, a martinet of a man who ruled his household with an iron fist and showed no love or compassion toward any of them, although he loved
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