{"product_id":"the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-9781649030948","title":"The Men Who Swallowed the Sun","description":"\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\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hoopoe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781649030948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216","brand":"Hamdi Abu Golayyel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839026798773,"sku":"9781649030948","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_52ea9c01-63c7-4f89-80b0-a023803037a6.jpg?v=1646729574","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-men-who-swallowed-the-sun-9781649030948","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}