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
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 2mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
128 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4773-0252-1 |
| Categories: |
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Fiction >
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| LSN: |
1-4773-0252-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781477302521 |
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