by Naguib Mahfouz · ISBN 9782070416868
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«La Belle du Caire» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz published by Gallimard in the Folio collection (paperback edition, 283 pages, in French).
In 1930s Cairo, the wealthy aristocrat Qasim bey Fahmi tries to hide his relationship with the young Ihsane by buying a complaisant husband. Mahgoub Abd el-Dayim, a poor student at the new university, accepts the deal to escape his condition, but the arrangement ends up entangling all three in a story of ambition, desire and corruption.
The work was originally published in Arabic in 1945 under the title القاهرة الجديدة; the French translation is by Philippe Vigreaux.
For readers of twentieth-century Arabic fiction and for those seeking classics by a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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".
