Wolves of the Crescent Moon
Yousef Al-Mohaimeed$18.70
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"The first great Saudi novel." --The New York Sun
Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez." In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders--a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 12/18/2007
ISBN: 9780143113218
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.00w x 0.51d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/24/2007 pg. 43
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2007 pg. 1115
Time 07/14/2008 pg. 68
Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez." In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders--a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 12/18/2007
ISBN: 9780143113218
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.00w x 0.51d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/24/2007 pg. 43
Library Journal 10/15/2007 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2007 pg. 1115
Time 07/14/2008 pg. 68