Palace Walk
by Mahfouz, Naguib
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 9774242203
- ISBN 13
- 9789774242205
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. The true first English language edition of the magnificent first volume of this author's acclaimed trilogy with BG code at bottom of copyright page. In brown boards and red cloth to spine with gilt. Bottom rear and top front corners dinged. Stain to front page ends and foxing/spotting to top page ends. Unclipped jacket without price as issued has 1/2 inch tear to top of spine, edge wear and creasing.
Synopsis
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he became the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.
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- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB006161NM
- Title
- Palace Walk
- Author
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 9774242203
- ISBN 13
- 9789774242205
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Place of Publication
- Cairo
- Date Published
- 1989
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arabic Literature;
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