The Colonial Conquest

✍ Scribed by Alessandro, Spina

• Book ID: 110482439
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 326 KB
• Series: The Confines of the Shadow 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781628728354

✦ Synopsis

A historical saga set in Benghazi. "A Hitchcockian whodunit of double-crosses and double identities in which almost no one is who he is thought to be" (Los Angeles Review of Books).

The Colonial Conquest is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of Libya, particularly the coastal city of Benghazi, under the pressure of Italian colonization.

This volume is divided into three sections—The Young Maronite, The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturnal Visitor—which are set between 1912 and 1927. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters, ranging from Ottoman functionaries, to Libyan aristocrats and Italian officers, Spina chronicles the colonial experience in Libya with breadth and feeling. Distinguished by an intimate understanding of East and West, this work and its companion volumes comprise among the most significant...