Shumaisi
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0863569110
ISBN-13
9780863569111
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Saqi Books
Country of Manufacture
LB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 23rd, 2004
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Dimensions
20.90 x 13.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has enrolled at university in Riyadh to study politics and economics. But this city has more than academic qualifications to offer a man of Hisham's mettle, and he soon discovers a strange underworld of alcohol and prostitution where fear, pleasure and politics merge.
The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi-Arabian capital Riyadh, where he''s enrolled at university to study politics and economics. But this city has more than academic qualifications to offer a man of Hisham''s mettle, and he soon discovers a strange underworld of alcohol and prostitution where fear, pleasure and politics merge. Here hospitals prove the richest cruising grounds, the desert is the place for illicit couplings, and now Hisham is spying on the bedroom activities of his next-door-neighbour''s wife, who has taken to leaving her door ajar...Meanwhile, Hisham''s disillusioned childhood friend Adnan abandons his artistic ambitions in favour of a loftier cause - Islamism. The two friends - who rapidly grow estranged - come to symbolise the opposite extremes of life in a repressive closed society.
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