Hamdi Abu Golayyel

The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

Klappentext:

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, 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.

Über die Autorin / über den Autor:

Hamdi Abu Golayyel, born in Fayoum, Egypt, in 1967, is a writer and a journalist. He is the author of numerous short story collections and novels, including Thieves in Retirement and A Dog with No Tail, which was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2008. He is editor-in-chief of the Popular Studies series, which specializes in folklore research, and writes for Arabic news outlets, such as al-Ittihad and al-Safir.

Humphrey Davies (1947–2021) translated some thirty book-length works from Arabic, including The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, and was a two-time winner of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

Preis: CHF 31.90
Sprache: Englisch (aus dem Arabischen von Humphrey Davies)
Art: Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2022 (2018)
Verlag: Hoopoe Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-64903-094-8
Masse: 216 S.

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