Mahmoud or the Rising of the Waters
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1917254369
ISBN-13
9781917254366
Publisher
Selkies House Limited
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Selkies House Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 29th, 2026
Print length
96 Pages
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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Mahmoud or the Rising of the Waters won the Prix du Livre Inter, the Prix Wepler, and the Prix Marguerite Duras. A tour-de-force novel in verse, it sold more than 100,000 copies in the first month after publication in France. Several love stories in one, it is a hypnotic tribute to the power of the written word to defy authoritarianism.
By night, poet and teacher Mahmoud Elmachi camps on the shores of a vast reservoir in the desert. Around him a savage war rages but each day he puts on his fins and snorkle, and dives deep into the water in search of his memories. Some refer to Mahmoud as the “old madman”, others call him the “old sage”. What becomes clear in the murky depths is that with each descent into the lake, his story reveals a gathering of treasures and loss—precious conversations, exquisite love. From inner depths he has found the courage to face down an authoritarian regime with the power of his writing, the force of non-violence.
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