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The Confines of the Shadow, Volume 1 - In Lands Overseas (Paperback, UK ed.)
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The Confines of the Shadow, Volume 1 - In Lands Overseas (Paperback, UK ed.)
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The Confines of the Shadow is a sequence of novels and short
stories that map the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi
from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital
of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. Alessandro Spina's saga begins
in November 1912 with The Young Maronite, which sees Italian
soldiers solidifying their control over Libya's coasts, leaving the
Libyan rebels to withdraw to the desert and prepare for a war that
would last until 1931, when by dint of sheer brutality, including
the internment of tens of thousands of civilians into concentration
camps, the Italians crushed the rebellion and murdered its widely
respected leader, Omar al-Mukhtar. Employing a cosmopolitan array
of characters, ranging from Ottoman functionaries, to Sanussi
aristocrats and Italian officers, Spina chronicles Italy's colonial
experience from the euphoria of conquest - giving us a front row
seat to the rise and subsequent fall of Fascism in the aftermath of
World War II - to the country's independence in the 1950s.Spina
finally concludes his narrative with the discovery of Libya's vast
oil and gas reserves, which triggered the tumultuous changes that
led to Muammar Gaddafi's forty-two year dictatorship.
Distinguishing themselves by their intimate understanding of East
and West, the novels that comprise The Confines of the Shadow are
among the most significant achievements of 20th century fiction and
stand unchallenged as the only multi-generational epic about the
European experience in North Africa. This is the first installment
of a three-volume translation, and it includes The Young Maronite,
The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturnal Visitor, which are set
between 1912 and 1927.
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