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Adeni Incense

Adeni Incense

James, Christiaan
Al-Muqri, Ali

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1788710916
ISBN13: 9781788710916
Publisher: Dararab for Publishing and Translation
Published: Nov 6 2025
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Adeni Incense interrogates concepts of belonging, identity, and who is entitled to speak for the whole. While set within a unique time period in Yemen's history, the novel is timely today as the centrifugal forces of national chauvinism and parochialism seek to further entrench psychological borders between peoples. With its richly developed scenes and moving depiction of a society teetering on a precipice, Adeni Incense is a masterwork of storytelling, leaving the reader with indelible memories of beloved characters and uncertainty over the viability of pluralism and diversity.

Teeming with Indians, Arabs, Somalis, Europeans, and others, Aden is no like no other city in the world. A transcendent city. A city for all no matter Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or animist. And when Michel, a young Frenchman washes ashore, fleeing his past in search of a new future, he's immediately drawn into this intoxicating cocktail of dreamers, revolutionaries, artists, and politicians who have all found a place within the city's vibrant atmosphere. Yet not all is as it seems. Monumental changes and forces are bearing down on Aden, threatening to erupt and refashion its identity, and redefine who can lay claim to the city that has always welcomed misfits.

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