A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain's occupation of Egypt immediately after World War I, Palace Walk introduces us to the Al Jawad family.
Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will.
- ISBN10 0385264666
- ISBN13 9780385264662
- Publish Date 28 February 1991 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
- Imprint Doubleday Australia Pty Ltd
- Edition Anchor Books ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 498
- Language English