Abu Golayyel Hamdi - The Men Who Swallowed The Sun A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: CO - Winner OF THE 2022 SAIF Ghobash Banipal Prize This gritty tale of two men's ill - conceived quest for a better life via 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.
Title: The Men Who Swallowed The Sun A Novel
Author(s): Abu Golayyel Hamdi
Publisher: American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9781649030948
Pages: 216 Pages
Publication Date: 5/3/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction