New Waw, Saharan Oasis

by Ibrahim al-Koni and إبراهيم الكوني

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Winner, National Translation Award, American Literary Translators Association, 2015

Upon the death of their leader, a group of Tuareg, a nomadic Berber community whose traditional homeland is the Sahara Desert, turns to the heir dictated by tribal custom; however, he is a poet reluctant to don the mantle of leadership. Forced by tribal elders to abandon not only his poetry but his love, who is also a poet, he reluctantly serves as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292754752
• ISBN13: 9780292754751
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"