The Desert : Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi
by
Albert Memmi
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Middle East Literature in Translation
ISBN-10
0815610556
ISBN-13
9780815610557
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Imprint
Syracuse University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 8th, 2015
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
284 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.90 x 1.40 cms
Ksh 2,700.00
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Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings, facing imprisonment, and narrowly escaping death, the prince travels the Islamic world absorbing lessons, often painfully, on how to govern himself, as well as a country. At the same time, al-Mammi engages on a spiritual journey to obtain inner wisdom rather than material riches.
Memmi chronicles the prince’s fortunes as they rise and fall, drawing upon the traditions of Maghrebian storytelling and Arabian tales to offer a highly imaginative and allegorical novel that provocatively blends history with fiction.
Memmi chronicles the prince’s fortunes as they rise and fall, drawing upon the traditions of Maghrebian storytelling and Arabian tales to offer a highly imaginative and allegorical novel that provocatively blends history with fiction.
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