Mudun al-milḥ

by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf

1987 627 pages eng

""Originally published in Beirut in 1984, this multipage epic brings to life many of the political issues that have plagued the Mideast for most of this century. Set in an unnamed gulf country that could be Jordan sometime in the 1930s, the novel relates what happens to the bedouin inhabitants of th…