by Naguib Mahfuz · Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788420639208
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Jan Aljalili is a novel by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. The story takes place in Cairo during World War II and describes the life of a middle-class family seeking refuge in the old Jan Aljalili neighborhood. The novel offers a detailed description of the popular, bourgeois, and intellectual environments of Cairo, as well as an analysis of Egyptian society at a time of great change.
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".
