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Author Abū Julayyil, Ḥamdī, author

Title The men who swallowed the sun / Hamdi Abu Golayyel ; translated by Humphrey Davies
Published Cairo, Egypt ; New York : Hoopoe, 2022

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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
Immigrants -- Egypt -- Fiction
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
Marginality, Social -- Fiction
Bedouins
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Marginality, Social
Egypt
Genre/Form Fiction
Fiction.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator.
ISBN 9781649030955
1649030959
9781649030962
1649030967
Other Titles Qiyām wa-inhiyār al-ṣād shīn. English