| Mansour's Eyes Contributor(s): Girod, Ryad (Author), Clarke, Chris (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1945492368 ISBN-13: 9781945492365 Publisher: Transit Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: 843.92 |
| LCCN: 2020937464 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 225 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - North Africa - Cultural Region - Arab World - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod's shimmering account of one man's heresy and imminent execution.--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Mansour al-Jaza ri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh Gassouh It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather, the Emir Abdelkader; that of Algerian independence; and that of another Mansour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Sufi mystic executed in 922. In this lyrical and ambitious novel, Ryad Girod looks at the post-Arab Spring world as its drive toward modernity threatens to sever its relationship with the ethos of Sufi thought and mysticism. |
