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Wolves of the Crescent Moon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143113218)
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x"The first great Saudi novel." --The New York Sun
Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel Garc? M疵quez." In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders--a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
Author: Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
ISBN-10: 0143113216
ISBN-13: 9780143113218
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.00w x 0.51d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2007 pg. 43
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2007 pg. 1115
Time 07/14/2008 pg. 68
Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel Garc? M疵quez." In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders--a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
Author: Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
ISBN-10: 0143113216
ISBN-13: 9780143113218
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.00w x 0.51d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2007 pg. 43
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2007 pg. 1115
Time 07/14/2008 pg. 68
By Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
xYousef Al-Mohaimeed was born in Riyadh in 1964. He has published several novels and short story collections in Arabic and has had stories published in Lebanon, Egypt, France, Germany, Spain, and Russia. He studied English and photography at Norwich University in England and was recently presented with an award by Diwan al Arab magazine and the Egyptian Journalists Union in recognition of his creative contribution to Arab culture. He lives in Riyadh. Anthony Calderbank is the translator of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's novel Rhadopis of Nubia, Sonallah Ibrahim's Zaat, and Miral al-Tahawy's The Tent and Blue Aubergine. He lives in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
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