Hamdi Abu Golayyel
The Men Who Swallowed the Sun
The Men Who Swallowed the Sun
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The Men Who Swallowed the Sun is a 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE-winning novel that follows two Bedouin men from Egypt's Western Desert as they seek to escape poverty through different routes, ultimately leading to extreme marginalization.
Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 01 March 2022
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
CO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE
This gritty tale of two men's ill-fated quest for a better life through the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling.
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.
ISBN-13: 9781649031990
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