The Desert : Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi

Name: The Desert
Brand: Syracuse University Press
SKU: 9780815610557
Price: 2700 KES
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ISBN: 9780815610557

by Albert Memmi

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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

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Fiction in translation

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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.

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