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Shumaisi

By: Hamad, Turki
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Language: English

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Translated to English, the novel by Saudi writer Turki al-Hamad. The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he’s enrolled at university to study politics and economics. ...

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By:Hamad, Turki
Language:English
Format:Softcover
Pages: 246 pp
Publisher:Dar al Saqi, Beirut 2005
Dimensions:14 x 20 cm
ISBN:0863569110
ISBN-13:9780863569111
Topic:Translated Arabic Fiction - Saudi Arabia

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The year is 1970, a period of crisis in the Arab world. Twenty-year-old Hisham has left home for the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, where he’s enrolled at university to study politics and economics. But this city has more than academic qualifications to offer a man of Hisham’s mettle, and he soon discovers a strange underworld of alcohol and prostitution where fear, pleasure and politics merge. Here hospitals prove the richest cruising grounds; the desert is the place for illicit couplings; and now Hisham is spying on the bedroom activities of his next-door neighbour’s wife, who has taken to leaving her door ajar.

Meanwhile, Hisham’s disillusioned childhood friend Adnan abandons his artistic ambitions in favour of a loftier cause – Islam. The two friends – who rapidly grow estranged – come to symbolise the opposite extremes of life in a repressive closed society. But their shared past soon conspires to reunite them in a new and terrifying way.

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