Dedalus Limited
Desert and the Drum
Regular price
$15.99 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$15.99 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Title: Desert and the Drum
Author: Beyrouk, Mbarek Ould
ISBN: 9781910213797
Publisher: Dedalus Limited
Published: 2019
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1209102
Publisher Description:
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016. Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin camp. One of them is the enigmatic Yahya. Rayhana's association with him leads to her abandoning all she knows and fleeing alone to the city. When her tribe discover she's stolen their sacred drum they pursue her to exact their revenge. Though Rayhana has her own missing person to seek. The Desert and the Drum tells of Rayhana's rift with her family, the disturbing characters she encounters in the metropolis, her attempts to separate friend from foe and to find a place for herself amidst the contradictions of contemporary Mauritania.
Author: Beyrouk, Mbarek Ould
ISBN: 9781910213797
Publisher: Dedalus Limited
Published: 2019
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1209102
Publisher Description:
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016. Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin camp. One of them is the enigmatic Yahya. Rayhana's association with him leads to her abandoning all she knows and fleeing alone to the city. When her tribe discover she's stolen their sacred drum they pursue her to exact their revenge. Though Rayhana has her own missing person to seek. The Desert and the Drum tells of Rayhana's rift with her family, the disturbing characters she encounters in the metropolis, her attempts to separate friend from foe and to find a place for herself amidst the contradictions of contemporary Mauritania.
