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Honey Hunger

Honey Hunger

Alqasmi, Zahran
Booth, Marilyn

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1649033915
ISBN13: 9781649033918
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2025 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION

An evocative, unpredictable novel.--Words Without Borders

A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope

Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her and her honey-colored eyes.

Across the breathtaking vistas of Oman's remote mountains and plains, Azzan's troubled past and present unfold. A disappointment to his family, he turns to drink, and ultimately discovers the healing power of his beekeeping, before an accident in which he loses all.

Zahran Alqasmi's masterful novel thrums forward with a subtle momentum. His lucid, poetic writing conveys a visceral sense of time and place, of the fragile ecologies inhabited by both bees and humans alike, in this intense and compelling novel of loss and hope.

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