Between Two Palaces - Naguib Mahfouz

Bayn al-Qasrayn is the first part of Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy. This is the trilogy that dazzled the world and everyone who reads it, about which Saeed Joudeh al-Sahar - his publisher said about it: "If the decision-makers of the Nobel Prize had seen it, they would have given it to you. " And its people tell us the news of an important period in the history of Egypt, beginning in the early twentieth century, and in it we see a coherence between the daily events of that family and the events of the motherland groaning under the weight of the occupation, which resulted in the 1919 AD revolution. In it, we see the head of the family, the traditional mother, the neighborhood, the students, and the revolutionaries.. We see Cairo from behind the mashrabiya.. We see its traditional events written in a totally unconventional way, bringing them to the climax of maturity in the Egyptian novel. We follow these events in between the two palaces, one neighborhood and another, in the palace of longing, when the close ones and the family disperse, and finally in Sukkariyeh, when the grandchildren have grown old and the grandfathers have grown old. Serious by time, it will not be repeated