Palace walk
by نجيب محفوظ
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Palace Walk (Arabic: بين القصرين, romanized: Bayn al-Quṣrayn, lit. 'Between Two Palaces') is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn, the book was then translated into English by William M. Hutchins and Olive Kenny, and then published by Doubleday (publisher) in 1990. The book's Arabic title translates into 'between two palaces'. The setting of the novel is Cairo around the time period of World War I. It begins in 1917, during World War I, and ends in 1919, the year of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The novel is written in a social realist style and reflects the social and political setting of Egypt in during 1917 to 1919.
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Islam, affairs, courtesans, Prostitution, law school, nationalism, Middle East Fiction, Arabic fiction, Fiction, History, Manners and customs, Middle East, Politics and government, Social conditions, parables, 1.Places
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Impasse des deux palais
2008-04, J.-C. Lattès
Mass Market Paperback
in French
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Palace Walk
1994, Black Swan
Paperback
in English
- Black Swan edition (19)
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Palace Walk
1994, Black Swan
paperback
in English
- 1994 Black Swan edition (13)
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Palace Walk
1994, Black Swan
paperback
in English
- 1994 Black Swan edition (10)
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Palace walk
1991-01, Anchor Books
paperback
in English
- First Anchor Books Edition, January 1991 (23)
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Palace Walk
1991-01, Anchor Books
paperback
in English
- First Anchor Books Edition: January 1991 (12)
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Palace walk
1990, Doubleday
hardcover
in English
- First Edition in the United States of America (3)
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Translation of: Bayna al-qaṣrayn.
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