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Palace of desire
Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-20062006
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The second part of 'The Cairo Trilogy' by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a true-life Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous, belching, self-adoring patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family in domestic turmoil, with feuding in-laws.
Main title:
Palace of desire / Naguib Mahfouz.
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Imprint:
London : Black Swan, 2006.
Collation:
432 p.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: New York; London: Doubleday, 1991.Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9780552995818 (pbk)
Dewey class:
892.736
Language:
EnglishArabic
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Index terms:
Arabic fiction
BRN:
9599