by Naguib Mahfouz · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789774241123
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«The Beginning and the End» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by American University in Cairo Press in paperback (379 pages, in English).
After the father's death, a middle-class family in Cairo tries to get by during World War II. The novel follows its members' efforts to improve their social and economic standing, with realistic characters caught between fate, ambition, and moral pressures. Mahfouz offers a critical portrait of Egyptian society.
The novel was originally published in Arabic in 1949. Naguib Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; this English edition is a translation.
For readers of classics of Egyptian fiction and twentieth-century literature.
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".
