| Description |
208 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
First published in Arabic in 2018 by Hamdi Abu Golayyel. |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Subject |
Bedouins -- Egypt -- Fiction.
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Immigrants -- Egypt -- Fiction.
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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Marginality, Social -- Fiction.
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Bedouins. (OCoLC)fst00829496
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Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
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Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
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Marginality, Social. (OCoLC)fst01009156
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Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
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| Genre/Form |
Fictional Work.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator.
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| Added Title |
Qiyām wa-inhiyār al-ṣād shīn. English
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| ISBN |
9781649031990 hardcover |
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1649031998 hardcover |
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9781649030948 paperback |
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1649030940 paperback |
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9781649030955 electronic book |
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