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The scarecrow / Ibrahim Al-Koni ; translated and introduced by William M. Hutchins.
- Title
- The scarecrow / Ibrahim Al-Koni ; translated and introduced by William M. Hutchins.
- Author
- Kūnī, Ibrāhīm
- Publication
- Austin : Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, [2015]
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- Additional Authors
- Hutchins, William M.
- Description
- xxi, 103 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community's leader at the end of the previous novel, The Puppet. They punished him for opposing the use of gold in business transactions--a symptom of a critical break with their nomadic past--and now they must search for a leader who shares their fetishistic love of gold. A desert retreat inspires the group to select a leader at random, but their "choice," it appears, is not entirely human. This interloper from the spirit world proves a self-righteous despot, whose intolerance of humanity presages disaster for an oasis besieged by an international alliance. Though al-Koni has repeatedly stressed that he is not a political author, readers may see parallels not only to a former Libyan ruler but to other tyrants--past and present--who appear as hollow as a scarecrow.
- Series Statement
- Modern Middle East literatures in translation series
- Uniform Title
- Fazzāʻah. English
- الفزاعة. الانكليزية
- Modern Middle East literatures in translation series
- Alternative Title
- Fazzāʻah.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- novels.
- Fiction
- Novels
- Novels.
- Romans.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781477302521
- 1477302522
- 9781477307090 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015939478
- OCLC
- 893895924
- SCSB-10624924
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library