by Naguib Mahfuz · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427032095
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«Hijos de nuestro barrio» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Booket in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
A long-lived father distributes his lands and shuts himself in his Great House; one of his sons, Idrís, tempts his brother Adham. Both branches form a Cairo neighborhood divided between workers and bosses. Idealistic characters emerge who try to free the oppressed, in a sequence read as an allegory of the history of humanity.
Volume 4 of the Biblioteca Naguib Mahfuz collection. Spanish edition published in 2002; the novel was originally published in 1959.
Will appeal to readers of contemporary fiction and to those seeking an allegory about power and human history set in Cairo.
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".
