| The Desert: Or, the Life and Adventures of Jubair Wali Al-Mammi Contributor(s): Memmi, Albert (Author), Roumani, Judith (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0815610556 ISBN-13: 9780815610557 Publisher: Syracuse University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015025575 |
| Series: Middle East Literature in Translation |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.95" W x 9.09" (0.61 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hailed as a masterpiece when it was first published in France in 1977, The Desert tells the story of al-Mammi, a young exiled prince of a now-destroyed Jewish kingdom in southern Morocco in the late fourteenth century. Fighting battles in the service of kings and narrowly escaping imprisonment, the prince travels the Islamic world absorbing lessons, often painfully, on how to govern himself, as well as a country. At that same time, al-Mammi engages upon a spiritual journey to obtain inner wisdom rather than material riches. Memmi chronicles the prince's fortunes as they rise and fall, drawing upon the traditions of Maghrebian storytelling and Arabian tales to offer a highly imaginative and allegorical novel that provocatively blends history with fiction. |