by Naguib Mahfuz · MR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427014015
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«Palacio del deseo» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by MR in 1990 in paperback (326 pages, in Spanish).
Ahmad Abd el-Gawwad, a merchant from the old quarter of Cairo, sees his children begin to question his authority while Egypt experiences the end of colonial tutelage. Amorous and ideological passions erupt within the family, marked by the clash between Islamic tradition and the influence of modern Western society.
Second part of the Cairo Trilogy, translated from Arabic by Eugenia Gálvez Vázquez and published in the Las otras culturas collection.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Egyptian society and in the work of Nobel Prize in Literature winner Naguib Mahfuz.
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".
