Wolves of the Crescent Moon
Author: Al-mohaimeed, Yousef
ISBN: 9780143113218
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 18 Dec 2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"The first great Saudi novel." -i>The New York Sun/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what i>The Washington Post/i>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 Garcia Marquez."br>br> 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.br>br> Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night,i>Wolves of the Crescent Moon/i>is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
ISBN: 9780143113218
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 18 Dec 2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback / softback
b>"The first great Saudi novel." -i>The New York Sun/i>/b>br> b>/b>br> Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what i>The Washington Post/i>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 Garcia Marquez."br>br> 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.br>br> Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night,i>Wolves of the Crescent Moon/i>is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
