نجيب محفوظ

"From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz: the three magnificent novels - published in an omnibus edition for the first time - that form an ancient-Egyptian counterpart to his famous Cairo Trilogy." "Mahfouz reaches back thousands of years to bring us tales from his homeland's majestic early history - tales of the Egyptian nobility and of war, star-crossed love, and the divine rule of the pharaohs. In Khufu's Wisdom, the legendary Fourth Dynasty monarch faces the prospect of the end of his rule and the possibility that his daughter has fallen in love with the man prophesied to be his successor. Rhadopis of Nubia is the unforgettable story of the charismatic young Pharaoh Merenra II and the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis, whose love affair makes them the envy of all Egyptian society. And Thebes at War tells the epic story of Egypt's victory over the Asiatic foreigners who dominated the country for two centuries."--Jacket.

Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz draws on his homeland's rich engagement with the afterlife--and his own near-death experience at the hands of a would-be assassin--in these newly translated, brilliantly mysterious stories of the supernatural.Among those who haunt these tales are the ghosts of Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange system of earthly probation in the hope of gaining entry to the fabled Seventh Heaven; a teenager drawn into the secret, enchanted life he finds within his neighborhood's forbidden wood; an honest perfume seller accosted on a night out by angry skeletons; and Satan himself, who confesses that there is still, despite the flood of evil in our times, an honorable man in the land. As ingenious at capturing the surreal as he is at documenting the very real social landscape of modern Cairo, Mahfouz guides these restless spirits as they migrate from the shadowy realms of other worlds to the haunted precincts of our own.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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En esta novela, el autor recrea con su maestría habitual el pasado faraónico del país del Nilo. En La batalla de Tebas Naguib Mahfuz narra una apasionante historia en la que se cruzan la humillación del oprimido, la prepotencia del invasor, la sed de venganza, el anhelo de libertad y el amor apasionado. Tras una terrible revuelta del pueblo egipcio contra el invasor, Sekenenre (legítimo emperador egipcio, pero con el cargo de gobernador a merced de Apofis, rey de los hicsos), muere y su familia se ve obligada a huir a Nubia. Diez años después, Ahmose, el joven nieto de Sekenenre logra obtener un salvoconducto de entrada libre en Egipto expedido por el propio Apofis, que lo tiene por un rico comerciante, sin sospechar siquiera que su propósito es reclutar a un ejército para que luche contra los hicsos. Sin embargo, los sentimientos se interponen en los planes políticos de Ahmose. Mahfuz no se plantea la reconstrucción de la rebelión y guerra de los egipcios contra los hicsos (s. xvi a.C.) con un espíritu arqueológico, sino situando en un primer plano a sus protagonistas, mostrando sus sentimientos y el ambiente espiritual de una época, y probablemente sea este enfoque el que ha convertido La batalla de Tebas en una de las novelas históricas más logradas e intensas del siglo xx.

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Autobiographic reflections by the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner for literature.

Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006; Arab writers; interviews.

A poor Cairo father represents God and his sons, Jesus, Mohammed and other profits (from Christian Science Monitor 9/06/2006)

Seventeen tales based on the classic, The Thousand and One Nights, but full of modern messages.

The New York Times Book Review called Palace Walk, the first volume of the Cairo Trilogy, "a tale told with great affection, sensitivity, and humor" and described Palace of Desire, the second volume, as "elegant and often explosive". The Nobel Prize winner now offers the climactic third volume, print.

Continuing the story of al-Sayyid Ahmad and his family, this is a fascinating look at Egypt in the 1920s. Increased personal freedoms mix tenuously with traditions of family control, as two of Ahmad's sons court alluring women.