Palace of longing

Publisher: Diwan Library Number of pages: 527 (It is known that the immortal trilogy of Mahfouz is originally one novel, the publisher at that time saw that it was so massive that it was difficult to publish, so he suggested dividing it into 3 separate novels, and Mahfouz agreed, to be the best novel trilogy of all time) After the death of Fahmy son of Al-Sayed Ahmed Abdel Gawad, five years pass, and the father comes back to life. His daughters after their marriage moved to Qasr Al-Shouq neighborhood in Ghamaliya during the twenties of this century, where Zanuba was born in the house of the scholar Zubaida, and Al-Sayed Abdel Gawad did not pay attention to her, having left the nightlife. Abdel Gawad decides to return to Zubaida the scholar's house and is surprised that the child of yesterday, Zanuba, has grown up and become a girl. Zanuba expects Al-Sayed Abdel Gawad to fall in love with her and convinces him to buy her a float, but at the same time she loves Yasin, his son, without knowing the true connection between them, and marries him after she abandons Al-Sayed Ahmed and enters their family as a respectable wife for his son. As for Kamel, he loves Aida, the sister of his friend, but she refuses to marry him and leaves him to disbelieve in the principles and morals he always believed in, after she reproaches him for his poverty, and she marries one of their wealthy friends.