A review by siria
Moving the Palace by Edward Gauvin, Charif Majdalani

4.0

Moving the Palace is a quirky little book about a Lebanese Protestant who goes to work for the British colonial administration in the Sudan the early twentieth century, and finds himself deep in the desert where he finds a fellow Lebanese merchant trying to find a buyer for an entire palace that's being transported piecemeal on the back of camels. Beyond that, there isn't much by way of a plot to this brief novel, but Majdalani's writing is vivid and often deadpan, dryly funny (there's one particularly funny scene satirising T.E. Lawrence).