Palace of Desire

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literary work novel

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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Predicate	Object
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 →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Palace Walk →	followedBy
Sugar Street →	follows
The Cairo Trilogy →	hasPart
Naguib Mahfouz →	notableWork
Sugar Street →	precededBy