Sunset Oasis
In the 1890s an Egyptian police officer, a disillusioned veteran of the Urabi revolt, is sent as district governor to the remote Siwa oasis, accompanied by his Irish wife. Each chapter is voiced by a different character, and the oasis becomes a place where the empire's pressure and his own past cannot be avoided. It won the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.
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