The men who swallowed the sun:
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Beteilige Person: Abū-Ǧulaiyil, Ḥamdī 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Davies, Humphrey 1947-2021 (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY Hoopoe 2022
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Abstract:"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. 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."--
Umfang:208 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781649030948
9781649031990