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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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Summary

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

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Fascinating tapestry of life in Cairo

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.

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must read high quality narrative,

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

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Great to re-read this wonderful book.

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 .

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Trilogy

I hope the other two books in the trilogy will be available in Audible soon.

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Recommended

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

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Hard work!

I'm sure this is a great saga and as we are living in Cairo I thought it would be a perfect read, but it took so long to get going and I realised, about three hours in, that I really didn't care about the characters and definitely didn't need to finish book 1 let alone start book 2! This is only the second book I have not finished, but decided that life is too short to waste listening to stuff you are not enjoying.

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