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Classics & Contemporary Book Discussion

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

2024-04-09 10:30:00 2024-04-09 11:30:00 America/Chicago Classics & Contemporary Book Discussion Join us to discuss Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz. Wilmette Public Library - Auditorium

Tuesday, April 09
10:30am - 11:30am

Add to Calendar 2024-04-09 10:30:00 2024-04-09 11:30:00 America/Chicago Classics & Contemporary Book Discussion Join us to discuss Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz. Wilmette Public Library - Auditorium

Join us to discuss Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz.

Palace Walk is 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.

The 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. Palace Walk 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.

Copies of the book are available here. Ebook and eaudiobook copies are available through Digital Library of Illinois or the Libby app. The eaudiobook is always available through Hoopla

For those who would like to purchase a copy of Palace Walk, please support our local independent bookstore, The Book Stall at 811 Elm Street in Winnetka.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Group |

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