Palace of Desire
Five years on from where the first volume left the family, al-Sayyid Ahmad has gone back to his evenings on the houseboat, now with a lute player his own son had been keeping. Kamal is at teachers' college reading Darwin and publishing articles his father calls apostasy, in love with the sister of a schoolfriend whose family stands far above his. The middle volume of the Cairo Trilogy, where Mahfouz's own formation enters the work.
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- continues ↑ Palace Walk
- ↓ Sugar Street
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