Our July August book is Palace Walk by Nabuib Mahfouz, and our first Nobel Prize winning selection.
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes
Washington Times
February 12, 1990
Palace Walk is the greatest novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the Noble Prize winner for literature in 1988; and it and the two other parts that round out the Cairo Trilogy may well be the masterpiece of Arabic literature in the twentieth century.
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.
Washington Times
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