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The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

✍ Scribed by Hamdi Abu Golayyel

Book ID: 112051378
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Tongue: English
Weight: 128 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781649030955

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✦ Synopsis

This gritty tale of twomen'sill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle Eastand****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...

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