Slave Yards - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist. She is the author of several short story collections, plays, and three novels including The Horses' Hair and Orange Content. She was chosen as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty by the Beirut39 project of the Hay Festival. Klappentext A window into a dark chapter of Libyan history and illuminates the lives of women with great pathos and humanity. Zusammenfassung Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi! Najwa Bin Shatwan's powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa! the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. Shortlisted for the 2017 International Prize for Arabic Ficiton! Bin Shatwan's unforgettable novel offers a window into a dark chapter of Libyan history.

Product details

• Authors: Najwa Bin Shatwan, Najwa/ Roberts Bin Shatwan, Nancy Roberts, Najwa bin Shatwan, Najwa Bin Roberts Shatwan
• Assisted by: Nancy Roberts (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780815611257
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1125-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Dystopian, Fiction - General