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The University of Arkansas Press Award for Arabic Literature in
Translation, 1997 In this, the first Nubian novel ever translated,
Awad Shalali, a Nubian worker in modern Egypt, dreams of
Dongola—the capital of medieval Nubia, now lost to the flood
waters of the Aswan High Dam. In Dongola, the Nubians reached their
zenith. They defeated and dominated Upper Egypt, and their archers,
deadly accurate in battle, were renowned as “the bowman of the
glance. Helima, Awad’s wife, must deal with the reality of
today’s Nubia, a poverty-stricken bottomland. Men like Awad now
work in Cairo for good wages while the women remain at home in
squalor, dominated by the Islam of their conquerors and ignorant of
the glory now covered by the Nile’s water. Left to tend Awad’s
sick mother and his dying country, Halima grows despondent and
learns the truths behind the Upper Egyptian lyric: “Time, you are
a traitor—what have you done with my love? Through his
characters’ pain and suffering, Idris Ali paints in vibrant
detail, with wit and a keen sense of history’s absurdities, the
story of cultures and hearts divided, of lost lands, impossible
dreams, and abandoned lives.
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