by Naguib Mahfuz · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427032279
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«Between Two Palaces» is the first installment in Naguib Mahfuz's acclaimed trilogy, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel transports us to early 20th-century Cairo, where Ahmad Abd el-Gawwad, a businessman, exerts absolute control over his family under the strict rules of Muslim law. However, outside the home, Ahmad leads a life of pleasures and freedoms, frequenting friends, enjoying wine, and seducing women. His children, Yasin, Khadija, Fahmi, Aisha, and Kamal, each in their own way, are victims of the hypocrisy and fear imposed by their father. The novel explores themes such as confinement, resignation, love, politics, and religion, offering an intimate and moving portrait of a family trapped between traditions and personal desires. This work, along with «Palace of Desire» and «Sugar Street», is considered one of the most important in contemporary 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".
