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The Men Who Swallowed the Sun
- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback

The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

- A Novel
Engelsk Paperback

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CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE

This gritty tale of two men’s ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling

Two Bedouin men from Egypt’s Western Desert seek to escape poverty through different routes. One—the intellectual, terminally self-doubting, and avowedly autobiographical Hamdi—gets no further than southern Libya’s fly-blown oasis of Sabha, while his cousin—the dashing, irrepressible Phantom Raider—makes it to the fleshpots of Milan.

The backdrop of this darkly comic and unsentimental story of illegal immigration is a brutal Europe and Muammar Gaddafi’s rickety, rhetoric-propped Great State of the Masses, where “the Leader” fantasizes of welding Libyan and Egyptian Bedouin into a new self-serving political force, the Saad-Shin.

Compelling and visceral, with a seductive, muscular irony, The Men Who Swallowed the Sun is an unforgettable novel of two men and their fellow migrants and the extreme marginalization that drives them.







Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9781649030948
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1649030940
Udg. Dato:
3 maj 2022
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
205mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
3 maj 2022
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