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"The Scarecrow" is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community's leader at the end of the previous novel, "The Puppet." They punished him for opposing the use of gold in business transactions--a symptom of a critical break with their nomadic past--and now they must search for a leader who shares their fetishistic love of gold. A desert retreat inspires the group to select a leader at random, but their "choice," it appears, is not entirely human. This interloper from the spirit world proves a self-righteous despot, whose intolerance of humanity presages disaster for an oasis besieged by an international alliance. Though al-Koni has repeatedly stressed that he is not a political author, readers may see parallels not only to a former Libyan ruler but to other tyrants--past and present--who appear as hollow as a scarecrow.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: The Scarecrow
• Author: Ibrahim Al-Koni
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9781477302521
• ISBN: 1477302522
• ID: 09240865
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 186 g
• Dimensions: 142 × 216 × 2 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2015

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