Palace of desire
Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York :
Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
[2011]
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| Edition: | Second Anchor Books edition. |
| Series: | Mahfouz, Najīb, 1911-2006. Cairo trilogy ;
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| Summary: | Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Arabic in 1957 as Qasr al-Shawq. English translation copyright 1991 by The American University in Cairo Press. |
| Physical Description: | 448 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780307947116 0307947114 |
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