{"product_id":"palace-walk","title":"Palace Walk","description":"\u003ci\u003ePalace Walk \u003c\/i\u003eis the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. \u003ci\u003ePalace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons--the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny\u003cbr\u003e\r","brand":"Naguib Mahfouz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44441791987948,"sku":"9780307947109","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780307947109.jpg?v=1718963702","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/palace-walk","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}