New Waw, Saharan Oasis Paperback / softback
by Ibrahim Al-Koni
Part of the CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation series
Paperback / softback
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Winner, National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association, 2015Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership.
Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as leader.
Whether by human design or the meddling of the Spirit World, his death inspires his tribe to settle down permanently, abandoning not only nomadism but also the inherited laws of the tribe.
The community they found, New Waw, which they name for the mythical paradise of the Tuareg people, is also the setting of Ibrahim al-Koni’s companion novel, The Puppet. For al-Koni, this Tuareg tale of the tension between nomadism and settled life represents a choice faced by people everywhere, in many walks of life, as a result of globalism.
He sees an inevitable interface between myth and contemporary life.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:166 pages
- Publisher:University of Texas Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780292754751
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:166 pages
- Publisher:University of Texas Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780292754751
