by Naguib Mahfuz · Ediciones Martínez Roca · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427032477
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«La azucarera» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz published by Ediciones Martínez Roca in hardback (304 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the grandchildren of an old merchant from old Cairo, who break with family control and take sides with different political currents in Egypt in the thirties and forties, from communism to Islamic fundamentalism. They reflect the vitality of a country leaving colonialism behind and facing its future.
It is the third installment of Naguib Mahfuz's trilogy and belongs to the MR Biblioteca Naguib Mahfuz collection. Naguib Mahfuz received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Arabic narrative interested in twentieth-century Egypt.
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".
