Ibrahim Al-Koni

A Sleepless Eye: Aphorisms from the Sahara

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The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poet's desert wisdom.

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Weitere Autoren: Allen, Roger (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-8156-1034-2
EAN: 9780815610342
Produktnummer: 15671535
Verlag: Syracuse Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 132 S.
Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.0 cm 328 g
Gewicht: 328

Über den Autor

Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in 1948. A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He studied comparative literature at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, Russia. He is the author of over eighty volumes, including novels, stories, and aphorisms, and has been translated into thirty-five languages. Roger Allen is Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, professor of Arabic and comparative literature, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.