The Scarecrow (Paperback)

The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Koni's Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fittingly, this continuation of a tale of greed and corruption opens with a meeting of the conspirators who assassinated the community's leader at the end of the previous novel, The Puppet. They punished him for opposing the use of gold in business transactions-a symptom of a critical break with their nomadic past-and now they must search for a leader who shares their fetishistic love of gold. A desert retreat inspires the group to select a leader at random, but their "choice," it appears, is not entirely human. This interloper from the spirit world proves a self-righteous despot, whose intolerance of humanity presages disaster for an oasis besieged by an international alliance. Though al-Koni has repeatedly stressed that he is not a political author, readers may see parallels not only to a former Libyan ruler but to other tyrants-past and present-who appear as hollow as a scarecrow.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
Release date:	August 2015
Authors:	Ibrahim Al-Koni
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-0252-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General
LSN:	1-4773-0252-2
Barcode:	9781477302521

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