{"product_id":"the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-9781649031990","title":"The Men Who Swallowed the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 216 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 01 March 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelling 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781649031990\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hamdi Abu Golayyel","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44093724754170,"sku":"9781649031990","price":39.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1646323540986_book.jpg?v=1646947128","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-9781649031990","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}