by Naguib Mahfuz · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435008433
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«Principio y fin» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by Edhasa in paperback, with 417 pages, in Spanish.
A middle-class family in Cairo tries to survive after the father's death. The widow, her three sons and her daughter struggle to get by; she places her hopes in the most brilliant one. The novel portrays ambition, corruption and social inequality in twentieth-century Egypt, during the Second World War.
Spanish translation of the novel, originally published in Arabic; this edition is from 1994 and belongs to the Narrativas Contemporáneas collection.
For those interested in realist fiction and contemporary fiction set in Egypt, as well as twentieth-century Arabic narrative.
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".
