Palace Walk — Naguib Mahfouz (1956)

Authors : Naguib Mahfouz

Genres : roman

Original language : arabe

Editions

  • Éditions du Seuil / Points, 1956 fr
    ISBN 9782020146082
  • Le Livre de Poche / Biblio, 1989 fr
    ISBN 9782253050919

Palace Walk (بين القصرين, Bayn al-Qaṣrayn), first volume of the Cairo Trilogy, published in 1956. This novel introduces the al-Jawād family in Cairo of the 1910s, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity across generations.

French editions

  • Impasse des deux palais — Le Livre de Poche / Biblio, 1989 (trilogy)
  • Impasse des deux palais — French translation, French publisher

Original editions

  • Bayn al-Qaṣrayn — Cairo, 1956

Reference collections

  • The Cairo Trilogy — trans. William M. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny, American University in Cairo Press