Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0552995800
ISBN 13
9780552995801
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
498
Description
This is a sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
