by Naguib Mahfuz · Martinez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427024588
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«La azucarera» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, third part of the Cairo Trilogy, published by MR in 1999 in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
The novel closes the Cairo Trilogy and portrays the life of a middle-class family in Cairo from the First World War to the 1950s. Through its characters, Mahfuz explores political and social changes in Egypt, the clash between tradition and modernity, and family conflicts.
The work was originally published in 1957 with the Arabic title Al-Sukkariyya. This Spanish edition includes the translation from Arabic by Eugenia Gálvez Vázquez and belongs to the Alcor collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and historical fiction interested in twentieth-century Egypt and in the work of a Nobel Prize in Literature 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".
