Description
| Product ID: | 9781945492365 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mansour's Eyes |
| Authors: | Author: Ryad Girod, Chris Clarke |
| Page Count: | 225 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Political / legal thriller, Political / legal thriller |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A friend’s public execution triggers an ambitious look at the breakup of the modern Arab world. 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-Jazaïri 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Transit Books |
| Publisher Name: | Transit Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-27 |