Wolves of the Crescent Moon Author:Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, Anthony Calderbank (Translator) An extraordinary novel from a leading voice among the new generation of Middle Eastern writers — Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning "Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab worl... more »d . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez."
In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders—a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city.
Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.« less
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