Palace Walk
In a house off Bayn al-Qasrayn in old Cairo, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his wife and children by a piety he suspends every night for music, drink and other women. Amina has not left the house unaccompanied in twenty-five years, the sons are finding their separate exits from their father's authority, and the 1919 rising against the British occupation is coming up the street outside. First of the Cairo Trilogy, and the work that carried the Arabic novel into the world's reading.
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