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A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in, its destiny mimics the rise of human civilization. The Libyan Tuareg author Ibrahim al-Koni, who has earned a reputation as a major figure in Arabic literature with his many novels and collections of short stories, has used Tuareg folklore about Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, to craft a novel that is both a lyrical evocation of the desert's beauty and a chilling narrative in which thirst, incest, patricide, animal metamorphosis, and human sacrifice are more than plot devices. In this novel, fantastic mythology becomes universal, specific, and modern.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Fiction in translation

• Full title: Anubis
• Author: Ibrahim al Koni
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9789774166365
• ISBN: 9774166361
• ID: 02358604
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Weight: 232 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 126 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. April 2014

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