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Shumaisi (Paperback)
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The year is 1970, a period of identity crisis in the Arab world.
Hisham, the young hero of "Adama," is now a university student in
the big city, Riyadh. He expands his intellect by day and pursues
heady, forbidden pleasures by night, indulging in arak, cigarettes
and an illicit affair with his neighbour Sarah, a bold young
housewife.
Meanwhile, Hisham's disillusioned childhood friend Adnan abandons
his artistic ambitions in favour of a loftier cause, Islamism. The
two friends grow apart, ultimately becoming strangers to each
other. They come to symbolise the opposite extremes of life in a
repressive closed society.
Eventually, Hisham's world becomes untenable as he can no longer
reconcile his studious days and licentious nights. This
contradictions plunges him into intense turmoil and self-loathing,
until his past catches up with him, with surprising consequences .
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"Adama," the first volume of his best-selling trilogy about his
native Saudi Arabia, was published in English by Saqi in 2003.
"Shumaisi" is the second volume of the trilogy, which ends with
"Karadib."
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