by Naguib Mahfuz · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427435
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«El mendigo» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (159 pages, in Spanish).
The plot takes place in Cairo during the 1960s. Omar Al Hamzawi, a prestigious lawyer and family man, suffers a crisis that disconnects him from his surroundings; in search of the secret of life, he turns first to love and then to mysticism, and ends up withdrawing from society.
The work belongs to the Ave Fénix collection from Plaza & Janés. Naguib Mahfuz, author of the work, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
Aimed at the general reader interested in contemporary fiction and Arabic literature.
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".
