by Naguib Mahfuz · tapa dura · ISBN 8431474001392
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«El callejón de los milagros» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by La Vanguardia in hardcover (222 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in a narrow alley in Cairo during World War II. Several neighbors of the district cross their lives while Naguib Mahfuz portrays poverty, social injustice, love and hope in the face of adversity.
2003 edition within the Selección Contemporáneos collection.
For readers interested in Egyptian narrative and in the work of a Nobel Prize in Literature winner.
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".
