Palace Of Desire (novel)

''Palace of Desire'' ( ar, قصر الشوق, Qaṣr ash-Shūq) is a novel by

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writer

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

, and the second installment of Mahfouz's '' Cairo Trilogy''. It was originally published in

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in 1957. The plot continues the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad's family as the patriarch loosens his once strangling grip of control over his wife and children. His sons grapple with love and loss and their place in the changing world of colonial Egypt. The father is forced to confront his age and difficulties that come with having adult children you can no longer control. Novels by Naguib Mahfouz 1957 novels Arabic-language novels Novels set in Cairo {{1950s-family-novel-stub