Century of Locusts

by Malika Mokeddem

Book Overview

What first appears as a tiny moving shadow, no bigger than a fly, on the dazzling horizon slowly reveals itself as the grim shape of violence and death; in the destruction left behind--the mother's broken body, the hidden child, the crying infant--begins the story of wandering and loss, of exile and desolation that sounds all the sad echoes of disappearing Bedouin life. Set in the first half of the twentieth century, Malika Mokeddem's Century of Locusts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803283067
• ISBN13: 9780803283060
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"