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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
  • Nomads > Sahara > Fiction
  • Nomades > Sahara > Romans, nouvelles, etc
  • Nomads
  • Roman > arabischer > Libyen > Geschichte 20. Jh > Text
  • Sahara
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