Name: Mansour's Eyes
SKU: 52830248
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Author: Ryad Girod
ISBN: 9781945492365

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Publisher

Transit Books

Author

Ryad Girod

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

225

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781945492365

Synopsis "Mansour's Eyes "

"Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girods shimmering account of one mans heresy and imminent execution."&;Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewMansour 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, Mansours Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansours 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.

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