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Palace Walk

Cairo Trilogy Series, Book 1

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Palace Walk

By: Naguib Mahfouz, William Maynard Hutchins - translator, Olive E. Kenny - translator
Narrated by: Neil Shah
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Book I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.

©1956 Naguib Mahfouz (P)2019 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Urban City

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I reread this amazing book and got even more from it at every level - cultural, spiritual and historical. My only slight criticism, having heard it read by someone else as an RNIB talking book, is that the reader sometimes goes a little over the top involune and in long passages this can grow just a little tiresome. Perhaps a remastering could even the dynamics out just a bit. The second and third volumes lack something in comparison, and theexcellentBBC radio production is available, but it would still be worth Audible recording them .

Great to re-read this wonderful book.

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This wonderful book takes you into a family living in Cairo during the first World War when Egyptian Nationalism was beginning to blossom behind the scenes. The family is ruled by a tyrant father but nevertheless enjoys the full complement of births, marriages and, dramatically, deaths.

Fascinating tapestry of life in Cairo

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Quite difficult to begin with but well worth the effort.
Really excellent story and narration.

Recommended

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Thoroughly enjoyed the story and wish that other volumes were available on audible.

The narrator did a good job overall but I did wonder why they didn’t choose an Arabic speaker for this job given that he was even badly mispronouncing the author’s name!

A great story by a Nobel prize winner

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I hope the other two books in the trilogy will be available in Audible soon.

Trilogy

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A wise book from a master author, I will definitely read the other two parts of his Cairo Trilogy

Narrator brought the characters to life, I feel I knew them all by the end

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high quality narrative writing truly Noble Prize winner. A must read. A reflection on the hearts and minds of an era in Egypt.

must read high quality narrative,

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this is a glorious audio book, a glimpse into a world unknown and long gone, a tale well told, funny and poignant, heart moving characterisation. And on top of this, the narration is absolutely first class, so clever and sympathetic to all the characters. I loved this listen! Pleased can we have books 2 and 3 too!

Beautiful story, superbly narrated

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Yawn. Immersing in endemic misogyny is not my thing either . What a shame this level of female suppression continues today in many parts of world and societies

Utterly dull. Fast asleep in no time!

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I'm sure this is a great saga and as we are living in Cairo I thought it would be a perfect read, but it took so long to get going and I realised, about three hours in, that I really didn't care about the characters and definitely didn't need to finish book 1 let alone start book 2! This is only the second book I have not finished, but decided that life is too short to waste listening to stuff you are not enjoying.

Hard work!

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