by Naguib Mahfuz · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422636243
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«Palacio del deseo» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (428 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Cairo and focuses on the experiences of a family, blending personal passions with the bonds that hold it together. In this setting, Mahfuz explores love, desire, and the contradictions of characters torn between their aspirations and the conventions of their time.
Second novel of the Cairo Trilogy, originally published in 1957 as Qasr el-shawq. Spanish edition of 1991, with translation from Arabic and dust jacket.
For readers of classic novels and Middle Eastern fiction; also of interest to those wishing to complete the Cairo Trilogy.
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".
