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The men who swallowed the sun : a novel / Hamdi Abu Golayyel ; translated by Humphrey Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abū Julayyil, Ḥamdī, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bedouins--Egypt--Fiction.
- Bedouins.
- Immigrants--Egypt--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 pages)
- Other Title:
- Men Who Swallowed the Sun
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Two Bedouin men from Egypt's Western Desert seek to escape poverty through different routes. One-the intellectual, terminally self-doubting, and avowedly autobiographical Hamdi-gets no further than southern Libya's fly-blown oasis of Sabha, while his cousin-the dashing, irrepressible Phantom Raider-makes it to the fleshpots of Milan. The backdrop of this darkly comic and unsentimental story of illegal immigration is a brutal Europe and Muammar Gaddafi's rickety, rhetoric-propped Great State of the Masses, where "the Leader" fantasizes of welding Libyan and Egyptian Bedouin into a new self-serving political force. Compelling and visceral, with a seductive, muscular irony, The Men Who Swallowed the Sun is an unforgettable novel of two men and their fellow migrants and the extreme marginalization that drives them."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Great Leader Himself a Saad-Shin!
- The Wellspring of the Saad-Shin
- The Saad-Shin
- The Vermin of Africa
- The True Definition of the Seid in the Land-of-the-Ear-That-Peeps-From-Under-the-Outfit
- The Attack
- MIA in October and Almost Finished Off by the Phantom Raider
- Suq el-Khamis
- Tatoum
- The Rabbit Farm
- The Leader
- The Zodiac
- The Omelet and Meat-and-Potatoes Restaurant
- Lampedusa
- Sicily
- Moonshine
- The Forest
- The Smugglers' Song
- The Train
- The Desert Nightingale
- Milan
- Kidnapping, Day In Day Out
- The Hamlet
- A Dawn Visit
- The Squat
- When a Crown Falls, a Cockerel Hops on Top of It and Crows
- Loreto
- Blessed by a Miracle
- The Station
- Benghazi
- The Battle with the Tunisians
- The Leader Gets Fed Up
- The House of Abundance
- Eweidat and His Feuds
- Biyassa Trenta
- San Fakturya
- An Historic Misconception
- The Totoh Thing
- The Blue Corolla
- France
- Pharaoh Boy
- Translator's Acknowledgments
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-64903-095-9
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