{"product_id":"9780307947109","title":"Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalace Walk \u003c\/i\u003eis the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. \u003ci\u003ePalace Walk\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. The family’s trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two world wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated by William Maynard Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027430949104,"sku":"9780307947109","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307947109_p0.jpg?v=1769887837","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307947109","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}