In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated Idris Ali paints in vibrant detail the story of cultures and hearts divided, of lost lands, impossible dreams, and abandoned loves.
In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated Idris Ali paints in vibrant detail the story of cultures and hearts divided, of lost lands, impossible...
The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, 1997
In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Awad Shalali, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, dreams of Dongola--the capital of medeval Nubia, now lost to the flood waters of the Aswan High Dam. In Dongola, the Nubians reached their zenith. They defeated and dominated Upper Egypt, and their archers, deadly accurate in battle, were renowned as "the bowman of the glance.
Helima, Awad's wife, must deal with the reality of today's Nubia, a poverty-stricken bottomland. Men like Awad now work...
The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in Translation, 1997
In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated, Awa...
