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Palace Walk
- Cairo Trilogy Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Book I of the masterful Cairo Trilogy. A national best seller in both hardcover and paperback, it introduces the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.
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Loved it. had a couple of late nights. hard to put down. highly recommend it.
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