Hoopoe Fiction #: The Night Will Have Its Say

Hoopoe Fiction #: The Night Will Have Its Say
Nancy Roberts, Ibrahim Al-Koni
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10 May 2022 US
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9781649031860
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International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world' s most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the Middle AgesThe year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan Ibn Numan. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat Ibn Numan' s forces. The Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the Middle Ages, narrated from the perspective of the conquered peoples. Written in Ibrahim al-Koni' s unique and enchanting voice, his lyrical and deeply poetic prose speaks to themes that are intensely timely. Through the wars and conflicts of this distant, turbulent era, he addresses the futility of war, the privilege of an elite few at the expense of the many, the destruction of natural habitats and indigenous cultures, and questions about literal and fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts. Al-Koni' s masterly account of conquest and resistance is both timeless and timely, infused with a sense of disaster and exile--from language, the desert, and homeland.

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"I loved The Night Will Have Its Say. Ibrahim al-Koni weaves a magical tale of a world where female power and the polyphony of the feminine is a given, where the earth and the heavens are in constant dialogue, and where ancestors and scriptures are alive and present. "--Nadia Wassef, author of Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo BooksellerPRAISE FOR IBRAHIM AL-KONI "A magnificent novelist"--Marilyn Booth, translator of the International Booker Prize winner, Celestial Bodies "One of the Arab world' s most innovative novelists"--Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania "The desert setting is al-Koni' s strength: its expanse, desolation, and mystery are powerfully evoked. "--Banipal"Al-Koni' s story, simply and elegantly told, has all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy--or, better, all the tribulations of Job. "--Kirkus Reviews "Al-Koni' s novels are aesthetic renderings of the passions of the desert and of the rich legends and cosmology of his people. An encyclopedic writer who has digested mythologies of the ancient world and literature of the modern world, al-Koni has both a poetic bent and a mystical inclination. "--Al Ahram Weekly"A true journey into the human psyche"--Cairo Magazine"Imagine Cormac McCarthy' s savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel. "--The Independent
Ibrahim al-Koni was born in the northwest of the Sahara Desert in Libya in 1948 and learned to read and write Arabic at the age of twelve. He has been hailed a magical realist, a Sufi fabulist, and a poetic novelist, and his more than eighty books contain mythological elements, spiritual quests, and existential questions. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages and include Gold Dust, The Animist, The New Oasis, The Puppet, and many more. Among the many literary prizes to his name, he has been awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He currently lives in Spain. Nancy Roberts is an award-winning translator of a number of Arabic novels including Salwa Bakr' s The Man from Bashmour (AUC Press, 2007), for which she received a commendation in the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Translation, and Ibrahim Nasrallah' s Time of White Horses (Hoopoe, 2016), The Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2014), and Gaza Weddings (Hoopoe, 2017), for which she was awarded the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She lives in Wheaton, Illinois.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781649031860
Published: 10 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: American University in Cairo Press
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248

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