![]() ![]() By an ex-wife he has one son, Yasin by his current wife, Amina, he has four other children: sons Fahmy and Kamal, and daughters Khadija and Aisha. Set in Cairo during and after the First World War, it focuses on one family, that of the tyrannically conservative patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad. ![]() ![]() This was the second book in my African Summer reading project, and the first installment of a trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. So it’s unlikely I’ll be able to post much until the week after that-and Palace Walk deserves attention while still fresh in my memory! I’ll be there for PhD stuff, attending a week-long summer school on Romanticism (a literary movement which falls at the extreme end of my time period of interest, but my supervisors thought it would still be relevant to what I’m working on). I wanted to write something about Palace Walk before the end of the week, because on my customary posting day of Sunday, I will in fact be in Prague. Please enjoy the colour-coordination here! April 2023: superlatives for the rest of it.Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs.The Great Reread, #6: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer.May 2023: superlatives for the rest of it. ![]()
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