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Book Review of Palace Walk (CairoTrilogy, Bk 1)

Palace Walk (CairoTrilogy, Bk 1)
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In Palace Walk (the name refers to a major street in the old part of Cairo), Mahfouz details the process of modernization in Egypt from the ground up through the story of a single Cairene family, the 'Abd al-Jawads, in the course of a single year, 1919. 1988 Nobel prize winner translated from Arabic.