The slave yards : a novel / Najwa Bin Shatwan ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ibn Shatwān, Najwá, author.

Contributor:

• Roberts, Nancy N., translator.

Series:

• Middle East literature in translation

Standardized Title:

• Zarāyib al-ʻabīd. English

Language:

• Arabic
• English

Subjects (All):

• Arabic fiction--21st century.
• Families--Fiction.
• Families.
• Slave trade.
• Arabic fiction.
• Libya.
• Slave trade--Libya--Fiction.
• Libya--Fiction.

Genre:

• Fiction.

Physical Description:

ix, 288 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

"This book was originally published in Arabic as Zarayib al-Abid (Beirut: Dar al-Saqi, 2016)"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"Set in nineteenth-century Ottoman North Africa, The Slave Yards is a heartrending and unexpected love story whose riveting events draw readers into a matrix of social, political, sexual and religious themes that open a window for us into a dark, untold chapter of Libyan history"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Ibn Shatwān, Najwá. The slave yards.

ISBN:

• 9780815611257
• 0815611250

OCLC:

1126546727