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Honey Hunger : A Novel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qāsimī, Zahrān.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781649033925
- 1649033923
- 9781649033932
- 1649033931
- OCLC:
- 1484074432
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