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title: "Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2"
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# Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2

**Brand:** naguib mahfouz
**Price:** VT9814
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- **What is this?** Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2 by naguib mahfouz
- **How much does it cost?** VT9814 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 2

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Another Great Mahfouz
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2005*

Like the 
  
first in the trilogy







  
  
    , this was excellent writing, alternating between telling and describing, but with the most vivid description, and somehow the telling is the most desirous writing as well.  Yes, Kamal's long-winded poetic idealistic love gets...long-winded at times.  But it builds to the a very appropriate conclusion in his life.  It is amazing to watch a family crumble- but not at all unexpected.  You see the seeds of destruction from the first pages of Palace Walk.  Al-Sayyhid Ahmad Abd Al-Jawad desires to have such strong control over his family, he ends up building it's destruction.  He wants to live a double life- and those live half as long.  He sees no hypocrisy in his actions, for he lives the unexamined life.  And he reaps his harvest.  This is the message interwoven throughout both the first two books.I keep on feeling that Naguib Mahfouz is the Dickens of his culture.  Characters are consistent with themselves, yet constantly changing, evolving, to become something greater, or worse, and unexpected, yet somehow we always knew it had to be that way.  He writes with such realism of the lives of people, and the changing lives over generations of the people of the large city.  It is dirty, intimate, and full of pathos.  It is life.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Deep, compelling read, but....
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017*

I absolutely loved Palace Walk, the first book in the Cairo trilogy, and was looking to once more lose myself in the crowded streets of Cairo and in the lives of the characters. I was not disappointed. The humanity and complexity of the characters is what draws us to them.But I was a little disappointed with Kamal's adolescent introspections and found the book dragging in those places. Just a little too much of it!Otherwise, the writing is as warm, fluent and vigorous as his earlier book.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting...
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2017*

I've just completed the second book in the trilogy.  It is well written, but not as good for me as the first one.  It continues with the family and the children are now adults with families of their own.  It is always interesting to have such an up close view into other cultures and their belief systems.  I still didn't like the father because any joy in him was reserved for outsiders, but he treated his family like he hated them.  His children were terrified of him and his wife lived to serve him hand and foot.  On to the third installation of this trilogy.

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