Palace Walk
Edition: 1994 Black Swan edition (10)
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ara
Translation of: بين القصرين
Format: paperback
ISBN-13: 9780552995801
Copyright date: 1990
Description: A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family.

Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will. --back cover