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Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, he has been influenced by many Western writers, including Flaubert, Balzac, Zola, Camus, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and, above all, Proust. He has more than thirty novels to his credit, ranging from his earliest historical romances to his most recent experimental novels. In 1988, Mr Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in the Cairo suburb of Agouza with his wife and two daughters.
Palace Walk introduces us to the Ahmad family, wealthy merchants living in Cairo during the early 1900s. Here is Old Cairo on the cusp of change: Egypt is struggling to eject the British, motorcars have appeared in the city centre, and tyrannical family head Al-Sayyid Ahmad's younger daughter has been hankering too much for a taste of the outside world... (Kirkus UK)
