Bibliograph

Mansour's eyes, Ryad Girod ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

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Mansour's eyes, Ryad Girod ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mansour's eyes

Oclc number

1121608459

Responsibility statement

Ryad Girod ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

Summary

"Mansour 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, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's 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."--Provided by publisher

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