Palace of Desire

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Palace of Desire is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, forming the second part of his acclaimed Cairo Trilogy that explores family life and social change in early 20th-century Egypt.

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Palace of Desire canonical 15

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instanceOf literary work
novel
author Naguib Mahfouz
countryOfOrigin Egypt
depicts Egyptian middle-class life
generational conflict
political change in Egypt
followedBy Sugar Street
follows Palace Walk
genre family saga
historical fiction
hasPrequel Palace Walk
hasSequel Sugar Street
hasSubject education and intellectual life
patriarchy
religion and secularism
romantic relationships
hasTranslation English
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
literaryMovement Arabic realist novel
literarySeries The Cairo Trilogy
mainCharacter Aisha
Kamal
Khadija
Yasin
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
mainTheme family life
modernization
social change
tradition versus modernity
notableAwardOfAuthor Nobel Prize in Literature
notableWorkOf Naguib Mahfouz
originalLanguage Arabic
partOf The Cairo Trilogy
placeOfPublication Cairo
publicationCentury 20th century
setIn interwar period Egypt
settingCountry Egypt
settingLocation Cairo
settingTimePeriod early 20th century
workInSeriesPosition 2

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Naguib Mahfouz notableWork Palace of Desire
The Cairo Trilogy hasPart Palace of Desire
Sugar Street follows Palace of Desire
Sugar Street precededBy Palace of Desire
Palace Walk followedBy Palace of Desire
al-Jawad family presentInWork Palace of Desire
Kamal appearsIn Palace of Desire
Aisha appearsIn Palace of Desire
Aisha workTitle Palace of Desire
Sukkariyya follows Palace of Desire
Khadija appearsIn Palace of Desire
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad appearsIn Palace of Desire
Yasin appearsIn Palace of Desire
Yasin workInWhichCentral Palace of Desire
William Maynard Hutchins translatedWork Palace of Desire