- Man-woman relationships, Fiction, Modern fiction, Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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About the book
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 169
- Publisher
- Dār al-Hilāl, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Dār al-Janūb
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- egy, French, English, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9780935576290
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