Ibrahim al-Koni Translated by Elliott Colla Gold Dust AlKoni_Final_WORKING_Al_Koni 12/7/19 AM Page iii. Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He is the author of many novels, including Anubis, Gold Dust, The Puppet, The Seven Veils of Seth, The New Oasis, and The Scarecrow (AUC Press, , , , , , )/5(11). Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.
Gold Dust by Ibrahim Al-Koni. $ $ Rejected by his tribe and hunted by the kin of the man he killed, Ukhayyad and his thoroughbred camel flee across the desolate Tuareg deserts of the Sahara. Between bloody wars against the Italians in the north and famine raging in the south, Ukhayyad rides for the remote rock caves of Jebel Hasawna. Gold Dust Ibrahim al-Koni. Many years ago I was impressed by a Kirk Douglas movie in which an individual man and animal pitted themselves against the 'civilised' mechanised world. In Gold Dust the human protagonist is a young Saharan Tuareg not a middle-aged cowboy but I was just as impressed. Gold Dust. by Ibrahim al-Koni. Share your thoughts Complete your review. Tell readers what you thought by rating and reviewing this book. Rate it * You Rated it * 0. 1 Star - I hated it 2 Stars - I didn't like it 3 Stars - It was OK 4 Stars - I liked it 5 Stars - I loved it. Please make sure to choose a rating.
Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He is the author of many novels, including Anubis, Gold Dust, The Puppet, The Seven Veils of Seth, The New Oasis, and The Scarecrow (AUC Press, , , , , , ). Ibrahim al-Koni is a prolific and recognized author. Having published over 80 books, he won the Sheikh Zayed Award for Literature, the Arabic Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in Gold Dust is primarily testimony to the author’s origins. Al-Koni is a native of Ghadames, where the opening and later scenes are set, and belongs to the higher echelon of Tuareg society. Born. Ibrahim al-Koni (Arabic: إبراهيم الكوني) is a Libyan writer and one of the most prolific Arabic novelists. Born in in Fezzan Region, Ibrahim al-Koni was brought up on the tradition of the Tuareg, popularly known as "the veiled men" or "the blue men." Mythological elements, spiritual quest and existential questions mingle.
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