{"product_id":"9781649030948","title":"The Men Who Swallowed the Sun : A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eCO-WINNER OF THE 2022 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis gritty tale of two men's ill-conceived quest for a better life via the deserts of the Middle East and the cities of Europe is pure storytelling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Bedouin men from Egypt's Western Desert seek to escape poverty through different routes. One—the intellectual, terminally self-doubting, and avowedly autobiographical Hamdi—gets no further than southern Libya's fly-blown oasis of Sabha, while his cousin—the dashing, irrepressible Phantom Raider—makes it to the fleshpots of Milan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe backdrop of this darkly comic and unsentimental story of illegal immigration is a brutal Europe and Muammar Gaddafi's rickety, rhetoric-propped Great State of the Masses, where \"the Leader\" fantasizes of welding Libyan and Egyptian Bedouin into a new self-serving political force, the Saad-Shin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompelling and visceral, with a seductive, muscular irony, The Men Who Swallowed the Sun is an unforgettable novel of two men and their fellow migrants and the extreme marginalization that drives them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hoopoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49220467589347,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781649030948-1.jpg?v=1788403812","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781649030948","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}