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Palace of Desire Early Readers from the stone age toNaguib Mahfouz In this second volume of The Cairo Trilogy, the master storyteller spins a sensual, provocative tale, following the al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920s, where increased freedoms prove as troubling as domination and repression once did. Like Palace Walk, Palace of Desire affords a fascinating look at a period of modern Egyptian history by lovingly and painstakingly examining the day to day lives of a single family.