Wolves of the Crescent Moon(ISBN=9780143113218) 英文原版
/ 2012-01-01
/ Penguin
Banned in Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debutnovel confirms what "The Washington Post" reported about itsaward-winning author: aYousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of themost divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style thatevokes Gabriel GarcA-a MArquez.a In a Riyadh bus station, a mancomes across a file containing official reports about an abandonedbaby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, alarger picture emerges of three outsidersaa Bedouin, an orphan, anda eunuchalinked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves ina predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dreamover the course of one night, "Wolves of the Crescent Moon" is anovel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about adeeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
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