Honey hunger / Zahran Alqasmi ; translated by Marilyn Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qāsimī, Zahrān, author.

Contributor:

Booth, Marilyn, translator.

Standardized Title:

Jūʻ al-ʻasal. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Hoopoe, an imprint of AUC Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her and her honey-colored eyes. Across the breathtaking vistas of Oman's remote mountains and plains, Azzan's troubled past and present unfold. A disappointment to his family, he turns to drink, and ultimately discovers the healing power of his beekeeping, before an accident in which he loses all. Zahran Alqasmi's masterful novel thrums forward with a subtle momentum. His lucid, poetic writing conveys a visceral sense of time and place, of the fragile ecologies inhabited by both bees and humans alike, in this intense and compelling novel of loss and hope"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the Arabic.

ISBN:

9781649033918

1649033915

9781649033901

1649033907

OCLC:

1423496256

Publisher Number:

90100996716