{"product_id":"palace-of-desire-9780307947116","title":"Palace of Desire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Naguib Mahfouz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePalace of Desire \u003c\/i\u003eis the second 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\u003e\u003c\/p\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. In \u003ci\u003ePalace of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by William Maynard Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny.","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355113808023,"sku":"9780307947116","price":1225.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780307947116.webp?v=1767308782","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/palace-of-desire-9780307947116","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}