by Naguib Mahfuz · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401427466
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«Las noches de las mil y una noches» is the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (290 pages, in Spanish).
A recreation of the world of the Thousand and One Nights: the novel brings back the classic characters of the Arabic tales and places them in a medieval city to build an allegory of the contemporary Arab world, with fantasy and adventure as the backdrop to political and religious conflicts.
Part of the Ave Fénix collection (no. 187/6). Translated by M.ª Luisa Prieto; original work published in 1979.
For readers of contemporary fiction who want to discover Naguib Mahfuz, Nobel Prize in 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".
