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Gold Dust : A Novel by Ibrahim al-Koni (2020, Trade Paperback)
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Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni, Elliott Colla. Author Ibrahim al-Koni, Elliott Colla. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAmerican University in Cairo Press
ISBN-109774169697
ISBN-139789774169694
eBay Product ID (ePID)21038671288
Product Key Features
Book TitleGold Dust : a Novel
Number of Pages200 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
TopicCultural Heritage, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorIbrahim Al-Koni
Book SeriesHoopoe Fiction Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight6.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
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Reviews"A magnificent novelist"--Marilyn Booth, translator of the Man Booker International Prize Winner, Celestial Bodies "One of the Arab world's most innovative novelists"--Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania "Imagine Cormac McCarthy's savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel."-- The Independent "Al-Koni's story, simply and elegantly told, has all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy--or, better, all the tribulations of Job."-- Kirkus Reviews "A true journey into the human psyche."-- Cairo Magazine "The desert setting is al-Koni's strength: its expanse, desolation, and mystery are powerfully evoked." --Margaret Obank, Banipal "Al-Koni's novels are aesthetic renderings of the passions of the desert and of the rich legends and cosmology of his people. An encyclopedic writer who has digested mythologies of the ancient world and literature of the modern world, al-Koni has both a poetic bent and a mystical inclination." --Ferial Ghazoul, Al Ahram Weekly "A story rich with Libyan history of tribal wars, foreign invasions, Tuareg mysticism and excursions across the Libyan Sahara, the novel's third main character. Tragic but thought-provoking, this work is worthy of its critical praise and awards."-- AramcoWorld, "A magnificent novelist"--Marilyn Booth, translator of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner, Celestial Bodies , and University of Oxford Professor "One of the Arab world's most innovative novelists"--Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania "Imagine Cormac McCarthy's savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel."-- The Independent
Synopsis"Imagine Cormac McCarthy's savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel."-- The Independent Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society. Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Libyan Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. There, he says farewell to the mount who has been his companion through thirst, disease, lust, and loneliness. Alone in the desert, haunted by the prophetic cave paintings of ancient hunting scenes and the cries of jinn in the night, Ukhayyad awaits the arrival of his pursuers and their insatiable hunger for blood and gold.
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