by Naguib Mahfuz · Martinez Roca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788427025165
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«Tras la celosía» is the novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, published by Martínez Roca in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
A family flees the war and settles in an old neighbourhood of the big city. Ahmad, the eldest son, takes a fancy to Nawal, much younger, but dares not ask her to marry him. His younger brother, bolder, begins an affair with her; Ahmad watches helplessly and nurses a bitter hatred towards him.
Naguib Mahfuz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988; this edition was published in March 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the narrative of Naguib Mahfuz.
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".
