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Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs

Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs

Al Farsi, Abdulaziz
Roberts, Nancy

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Series: Modern Omani Novels

General Fiction

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ISBN10: 977416590X
ISBN13: 9789774165900
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Feb 15 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by his flight from a painful love affair, coincides with events that reveal the force of long-established traditions that have a stranglehold on the town: from racial prejudice, to religious bigotry, to ossified patterns of leadership. Khalid's awakening and transformation are catalyzed by his encounters with a certain Saturnine poet who, in the course of chasing after an elusive ode, has stumbled upon this unnamed village. For a period of time the Saturnine becomes Khalid's closest companion: listening to his woes, helping him see himself with new eyes, and imparting to him a wisdom from a world beyond, untainted by human smallness.

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