Palace of longing

Book name: The Palace of Desire Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: Diwan for Publishing Book category: Novels Number of pages: 200 About the book: The second part of Naguib Mahfouz's famous trilogy, which many critics and literature specialists consider the best and most important Arabic novel. This part deals with the next phase after the 1919 revolution in the life of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdul Gawad, where Mr. Abdul Gawad isolated himself for five years after the martyrdom of his son "Fahami", until he finally decides to come out of his isolation and resume staying up at the house of "Zubaida" the scholar, and there he is surprised by "Zanuba" having become a mature girl, and he falls in love with her and buys her a boat overlooking the Nile. At the same time, his eldest son "Yasin" loves her, entering his father's world from the back door, while "Kamal" lives a platonic love story for his beloved "Aida". The novel was published in 1957 and was adapted to the cinema in 1967.