Description
A Tuareg youth sets out across the merciless, unmapped Sahara in search of a father he barely knows—only a shadow from childhood and a haunting sense of unfinished belonging. As the desert strips away certainty, his journey becomes both a physical ordeal and a spiritual reckoning, drawing him into encounters where memory, myth, and survival blur into one another. Blending lyrical, desert-haunted storytelling with the stark immediacy of survival, the novel explores identity, lineage, and the thin line between the seen world and the forces that shape it. In Ibrahim al-Koni’s distinctive, atmospheric style, the Sahara is not just a setting but a living presence—testing faith, revealing hidden truths, and asking what it truly means to seek a parent, a past, or a self.
Available Editions
paperback
American University in Cairo Press
Published Jan 1, 2014
208 pages
ISBN: 9789774166365
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Translation
From: ara
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Anubis by Ibrahim al-Koni.