Maps of the Soul (eBook, ePUB) - Fagih, Ahmed
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Othman al-Sheikh is running away from the shadows of his past life in a small dusty village in the Libyan Desert. Tripoli, meanwhile, is a city in the process of transformation, moulded to the will of its Italian colonisers. Its decadent entertainments and extravagant riches conceal an underbelly of abject poverty and ruthless plotting. Othman falls for the city and its temptations. With a natural instinct for survival, he tries his luck in the capital, swept along by chance and opportunity.

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Produktbeschreibung
Othman al-Sheikh is running away from the shadows of his past life in a small dusty village in the Libyan Desert. Tripoli, meanwhile, is a city in the process of transformation, moulded to the will of its Italian colonisers. Its decadent entertainments and extravagant riches conceal an underbelly of abject poverty and ruthless plotting. Othman falls for the city and its temptations. With a natural instinct for survival, he tries his luck in the capital, swept along by chance and opportunity.

Autorenporträt
Ahmed Fagih is a renowned Libyan novelist and playwright, born in Libya, 1942. His first collection of short fiction in Arabic was published in 1965. Gardens of the Night, his award winning trilogy, was published in English translation in 1995. His other works include several collections of short stories, plays and essays. Maps of the Soul is a twelve part novel, published in the Arabic original in 2009. This edition presents parts one to three in the first ever English translation. Fagih lives between Tripoli and Cairo.