{"product_id":"the-men-who-swallowed-the-hamdi-abu-golayyel-9781649031990","title":"The Men Who Swallowed the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis gritty t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eale of two \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emen's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e the cities of Europe is pure storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompelling and visceral, with a seductive, muscular irony, \u003ci\u003eThe Men Who Swallowed the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable novel of two men and their fellow migrants and the extreme marginalization that drives them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hamdi Abu Golayyel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1649031998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781649031990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hoopoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Hamdi Abu Golayyel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982309261567,"sku":"9781649031990","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_004200c5-6602-4053-9c09-26e2724e10b4.jpg?v=1683260413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-men-who-swallowed-the-hamdi-abu-golayyel-9781649031990","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}