by Naguib Mahfuz · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427027244
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«El día que mataron al líder» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in hardcover (208 pages, in Spanish).
On October 6, 1981, the assassination of Anwar Al Sadat frames the narrative. An octogenarian grandfather, his grandson and the latter's girlfriend tell their lives amid a historic moment. The novel reflects on how to live when the necessary changes in the present seem to arrive only in an uncertain future.
First volume in the MR Biblioteca Naguib Mahfuz collection. Naguib Mahfuz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
For readers of contemporary fiction and for those who want to discover the narrative of Naguib Mahfuz.
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".
