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Mansour's Eyes

Mansour's Eyes

Girod, Ryad
Clarke, Chris

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1945492368
ISBN13: 9781945492365
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: Jul 14 2020
Pages: 225
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020

Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod's shimmering account of one man's heresy and imminent execution.--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

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.

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