Qasr Al-Shawq, authored by Naguib Mahfouz

After the death of Fahmy, son of السيد أحمد عبدالجواد, five years pass, and the father comes back to life. His daughters moved after their marriage to حي قصر الشوق in الجمالية during the twenties of this century, where زنوبة was born in the house of the scholar زبيدة, and السيد عبد الجواد paid no attention to her. He had left the life of the night, and عبد الجواد decided to return to زبيدة's house and was surprised that the child of yesterday, زنوبة, had grown up and become a girl. زنوبة predicted that السيد عبد الجواد loved her and convinced him to buy her a float, but at the same time, she loved ياسين, his son, without knowing the true relation between them, and she married him after she abandoned السيد أحمد and entered their family as a respectable wife for his son. As for كمال, he loved عايدة, the sister of his friend, but she refused to marry him and let him despair in the principles and morals he had always believed in, after she mocked him for his poverty, and she married one of their wealthy friends. Number of pages: 544