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Anubis: A Desert Novel

English

By (author): Ibrahim Al-Koni

Translated by: William M. Hutchins

A 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 lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the rise of human civilization. The Libyan Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni, who has earned a reputation as a major figure in Arabic literature with his many novels and collections of short stories, has used Tuareg folklore about Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, to craft a novel that is both a lyrical evocation of the desert's beauty and a chilling narrative in which thirst, incest, patricide, animal metamorphosis, and human sacrifice are more than plot devices. In this novel, fantastic mythology becomes universal, specific, and modern. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 231g
  • Dimensions: 125 x 200mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2014
  • Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
  • Publication City/Country: Egypt
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9789774166365

About Ibrahim Al-Koni

Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in 1948. A Tuareg who writes in Arabic he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He studied comparative literature at the Gorky Institute in Moscow and then worked as a journalist in Moscow and Warsaw. In 2010 he received the Arab Novel Award and dedicated the value of the prize to the children of the Tuareg tribes from which he originally hails. William Maynard Hutchins the principal translator of Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy (AUC Press 1990 - 92) has taught English philosophy Arabic and Islamic Studies in Lebanon Ghana Egypt and France. His most recent book is Tawfiq al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide.

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