Description
| Product ID: | 9789774167881 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | EG |
| Title: | The Longing of the Dervish |
| Subtitle: | A Novel |
| Authors: | Author: Hammour Ziada |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating At the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let out of prison with the overthrow of the Mahdist state in Sudan. On the brink of death, the memory of his beloved Theodora is all that has sustained him through seven years of grim incarceration—that and his vow to avenge her killing. At the close of the nineteenth century, freed slave Bakhit is let out of prison with the overthrow of the Mahdist state in Sudan. On the brink of death, the memory of his beloved Theodora is all that has sustained him through seven years of grim incarceration—that and his vow to avenge her killing. |
| Imprint Name: | Hoopoe |
| Publisher Name: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-08-18 |