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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ibrahim al koni”
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  • The Night Will Have Its Say

    A Novel

    Translated by Nancy Roberts ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world's most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North AfricaThe year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu'man. Her predecessor had been captured and ... Read more

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  • The Bleeding of the Stone

    The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Gold Dust

    A Novel

    Translated by Elliott Colla ...
    Series series Hoopoe Fiction
    “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 IndependentGold 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 ... Read more

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  • Anubis

    A Desert Novel

    Translated by William M. Hutchins ...
    "A true journey into the human psyche."—Cairo MagazineThe tale of one man’s quest and survival in the Sahara Desert, set in the framework of Tuareg mythologyA Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a ... Read more

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  • Seven Veils of Seth

    A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya

    In the ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is the evil god who out of jealousy slays his brother Osiris, the good god of agriculture, to seize the throne. Seth is, however, also the god of the desert and therefore a benevolent champion of desert dwellers like the traditionally nomadic Kel Tamasheq, better known as the Tuareg. In "The Seven Veils of Seth", the world-renowned, Libyan, Tuareg author ... Read more

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  • New Waw, Saharan Oasis

    Translated by William M. Hutchins ...
    Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as leader. Whether by human design or the meddling ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Scarecrow

    Translated by William M. Hutchins ...
    The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community's leader at the end of the previous novel, The Puppet. They punished him for opposing the use of gold in business ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Puppet

    Translated by William M. Hutchins ...
    The Puppet, a mythic tale of greed and political corruption, traces the rise, flourishing, and demise of a Saharan oasis community. Aghulli, a noble if obtuse man who has been chosen leader of the oasis, hankers after the traditional nomadic pastoralist life of the Tuareg. He sees commerce (understood as including trade in gold, marriage, agriculture, and even recreation) as the prime culprit in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Secrets of the Heart

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Anthony Rizcallah Ferris ...
    An early collection of Kahlil Gibran’s writings showcases the many styles of this prolific thinker, all profoundly beautifulKahlil Gibran reveals his vision of the soul and understanding of the world—past, present, and future—in this rich sampling of more than twenty works. Prose tales, fables, and poems evoke the mystic East and form a world at once powerful, tender, joyous, and melancholy. This ... Read more

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    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time and make a promise to meet again the next day. But only one of them shows up.This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes ... Read more

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  • Clark Ashton Smith’s Works

    Clark Ashton Smith’s Works contained 13 works written by Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne. As a poet, Smith is grouped with ... Read more

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