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Girod, Ryad, 1970-
Subjects
Syrians -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
Civilization, Arab -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Sufism -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
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Girod, Ryad, 1970-
Syrians -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
Civilization, Arab -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Sufism -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
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Mansour
's eyes /
Ryad
Girod
; translated from the French by Chris Clarke.
by
Girod
,
Ryad
,
1970-
Transit Books, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION GIR
Subjects
Syrians -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
Civilization, Arab -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Sufism -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Saudi Arabia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781945492365 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Yeux
de
Mansour
.
English
Description:
155 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Original title: Les
yeux
de
Mansour
.
In
English
, translated from the French.
Summary:
"
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."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Literary fiction.
French fiction -- Translations into
English
.
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