Description
| Product ID: | 9781649030948 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Men Who Swallowed the Sun |
| Subtitle: | A Novel |
| Authors: | Author: Hamdi Abu Golayyel, Humphrey Davies |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZEThis 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 storytellingTwo 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. CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE |
| Imprint Name: | Hoopoe |
| Publisher Name: | American University in Cairo Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-05-03 |
