by Naguib Mahfuz · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422627524
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«El callejón de los milagros» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (376 pages, in Spanish).
In Cairo, the residents of Midaq Alley —a baker, a candy seller, a matchmaker, a dentist, a merchant, and the young Hamida— see their lives intertwine. The novel portrays the contradictions of Egyptian society in the 1940s and addresses ambition, love, poverty, and the search for identity.
The original work is «Zuqaq al-Midaqq» (1947), translated by Helena Valentí; this edition is illustrated by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo and includes an epilogue by María Rosa de Madariaga.
For readers of twentieth-century classics and fiction set in Egypt; also for those who follow the work of a Nobel Prize 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".
