{"product_id":"the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-hardcover","title":"The Men Who Swallowed the Sun - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHamdi Abu Golayyel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHumphrey Davies\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebu Golayyel's gritty t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eale of two \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003emen's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e the cities of Europe is pure storytelling\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompelling and visceral, with a seductive, muscular irony, \u003ci\u003eThe Men Who Swallowed the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable novel of two men and their fellow migrants and the extreme marginalization that drives them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHamdi Abu Golayyel, \u003c\/b\u003e born in Fayoum, Egypt, in 1967, is a writer and a journalist. He is the author of numerous short story collections and novels, including \u003ci\u003eThieves in Retirement \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Dog with No Tail, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2008. He is editor-in-chief of the Popular Studies series, which specializes in folklore research, and writes for Arabic news outlets, such as \u003ci\u003eal-Ittihad \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eal-Safir\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHumphrey Davies \u003c\/b\u003e(1947-2021) translated some thirty book-length works from Arabic, including \u003ci\u003eThe Yacoubian Building\u003c\/i\u003e by Alaa Al Aswany, and was a two-time winner of the Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51785133785376,"sku":"9781649031990","price":85.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/df570dffe3e02fa6f88bc493161b3d92.webp?v=1780612241","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}