by Naguib Mahfuz · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420666471
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«El Cairo Nuevo» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Cairo in the 1930s and examines ambition in a society undergoing transformation. Mahyub Abdudaim, a young graduate of humble origins, resentful and unscrupulous, tries to rise into the Europeanized class embodied by the new neighborhoods, in a struggle between old customs and human passions.
The translation is by Marcelino Villegas González. It belongs to the 13/20 collection from Alianza Editorial. It was published in 2007.
It is suitable for readers of historical and psychological fiction interested in twentieth-century Egypt.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
