内容简介
Once again, Naguib Mahfouz has fashioned a highly charged,
tightly written tale of intersecting lives that provides readers
with both an engaging and powerful story as well as a vivid
portrait of life in Egypt in the late 1960s. Set in Alexandria,
Miramar tells the violent, tragic story of the former grand
hostelry Miramar, now a pension run by an elderly grand dame and a
young country girl.
作者简介
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing
when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader,
his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle
commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a
career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13
short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his
many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of
Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and
Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through
three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so.
He died in August 2006.