Dar El Shorouk Naguib Mahfouz: The Palace of Longing

This is the trilogy that fascinated the world and everyone who read it, by its great writer Naguib Mahfouz, about which Saeed Joudeh Al-Sahar, its publisher, said: “If the people who decided the Nobel Prize had seen it, they would have given it to you.” It is not a novel of ordinary generations, but rather it is a life that ripples inside the book with all its members, components and people telling us the news of a period It is an important part of Egypt’s history, beginning in the early twentieth century, in which we see cohesion between the daily events of that family and the events of the motherland, which is groaning under the wrath of the occupation, resulting in the 1919 revolution. In it, we see the head of the family, the traditional and warm mother, the students and the revolutionaries. We see Cairo from behind the Mashrabiya. We see its traditional events written in a completely unconventional way, bringing the Nobel writer to the height of maturity in the Egyptian novel. We follow these events in between the two palaces, one time and another, in the palace of longing, when the close ones and the family scatter, and finally in Al-Sukaria. The grandchildren have grown old and the grandparents are old. We see the tone of life as it revolves on all its neighborhoods and hear its voice, so everyone hears it, but each in his own way.. Will not be repeated