The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by Hamdi Abu Golayyel

The Men Who Swallowed the Sun

Hamdi Abu Golayyel with Humphrey Davies (Translator)

216 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Two 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, whil...

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