Palace Walk
Cairo Trilogy Series, Book 1
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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.
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- Dennis Sommers
- 02-02-21
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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- Amazon Customer
- 30-08-20
Trilogy
I hope the other two books in the trilogy will be available in Audible soon.
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- M. R. Beaumont
- 06-02-19
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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- Mrs Lynne OSullivan
- 10-11-21
Recommended
Quite difficult to begin with but well worth the effort.
Really excellent story and narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-07-24
A great story by a Nobel prize winner
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!
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- Beebo
- 10-09-21
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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- liz batchelor
- 27-11-24
Beautiful story, superbly narrated
this is a glorious audio book, a glimpse into a world unknown and long gone, a tale well told, funny and poignant, heart moving characterisation. And on top of this, the narration is absolutely first class, so clever and sympathetic to all the characters. I loved this listen! Pleased can we have books 2 and 3 too!
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-24
Utterly dull. Fast asleep in no time!
Yawn. Immersing in endemic misogyny is not my thing either . What a shame this level of female suppression continues today in many parts of world and societies
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- C. Dunn
- 31-03-21
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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