Ibrahim al-Koni

Gold Dust

A Novel

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Mythic tale of camels, tribes, vengeance, honor, told with beautiful simplicity by one of the Arab worlds greatest living novelists Gold Dust was runner-up for the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary TranslationNew in the Hoopoe format: new cover, newly designed interiorIbrahim Al-Koni was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The author's has an amazing backstory having been born in the rural Saharan desert as an ethnic Berber Translator is in the U.S. teaching at Georgetown UniversityPraised by Marilyn Booth, translator of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner, Celestial Bodies

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Colla, Elliott (Übers.) / Colla, Elliott (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-977-416-969-4
EAN: 9789774169694
Produktnummer: 32086927
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.5 cm 190 g
Gewicht: 190

Über den Autor

Ibrahim al-Koni was born in the northwest of the Sahara Desert in Libya in 1948 and learned to read and write Arabic at the age of twelve. He has been hailed a magical realist, a Sufi fabulist, and a poetic novelist, and his books contain mythological elements, spiritual quests, and existential questions. He has been awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature and the Mohamed Zefzaf Prize for the Arabic Novel and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. His books have been translated into 35 languages. He currently lives in Salou, Spain.