Naguib Mahfouz - O Palácio do Desejo

The second volume of the mythical "Cairo Trilogy," the saga of a family that is also the saga of a country and a people.
Between 1924 and 1927, everything in Egypt changes at breakneck speed. The same happens within the family around which this story revolves. After the tragic death of Fahmy, which concludes the first volume, we find a family in flux. A patriarch in open war against the loss of traditional values, despite having returned to his dissolute customs in a power struggle with his other sons.

In this second volume of the saga, men take center stage, lost in a country and a city in constant flux. They also reveal their inconstancies and allow themselves to be guided by passions in a world that seems to have lost its bearings.