Mahfouz's characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates with unresolved tensions. Tragedy, in this busy family drama, can mean anything from marrying below one's station to a massacre of protesters by English constables and Egyptian soldiers. The inadvertent cause of their undoing may be another scion of the patriarch, young Ridwan, a closet homosexual whose liaison with a prominent politician apparently backfires.
These two diametrically opposed brothers will share the same fate-a jail cell. One of his nephews, Abd Al-Muni'm, becomes a Muslim fundamentalist another nephew, Ahmad, takes Marx as his prophet. Kamal, son of the gaunt, wasted patriarch, is a grade-school teacher and philosopher who veers between lusty debauches and reading Spinoza. The third volume of his Cairo Trilogy, the novel opens in 1935 as Egypt smolders under British occupation, and it extends through the war.
In it we follow 17-year-old Kamal as he deals with crises of faith and unrequited love in 1920’s Egypt. Lot of 2 Paperback Naguib Mahfouz Books: Sugar Street, Palace Of Desire Condition: Good Sale ends in: 1d 15h Price: US 10.72 Was US 16.00 Save US 5.28 (33 off) Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Nobel Prize winner Mahfouz's stunning portrait of a family in dissolution (first published in 1957) mirrors an Egypt trying to plunge into the modern world but beset by colonialism, a rigid class system and political oppression. Palace of Desire is the second novel of Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.
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