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1 online resource |
Summary |
"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. 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."-- Provided by publisher |
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Subject |
Bedouins -- Egypt -- Fiction
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Immigrants -- Egypt -- Fiction
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Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
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Marginality, Social -- Fiction
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Bedouins
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants
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Marginality, Social
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Egypt
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Fiction.
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Romans.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator.
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ISBN |
9781649030955 |
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1649030959 |
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9781649030962 |
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1649030967 |
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