- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Heinemann International Literature & Textbooks (24 Oct 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0435909223
- ISBN-13: 978-0435909222
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,818,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[This] is a compelling, disturbing, and provocative work....It is a privilege to have access to the fruits of [Mahjoub's] considerable labor, and his novel marks a new maturity in literature in English about the Sudan."-World Literature Today
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Nineteenth-century Sudan, wracked by religious, cultural, and political differences, is brilliantly evoked in the most ambitious book yet by this talented novelist. This, Mahjoub's latest novel, centers around the Battle of Omdurman---one of the great colonial wars in Britian's attempt to gain control over the Sudan. Mahojoub brings this period to life with perception, honesty, and integrity.
This is a story of fighting men, most Sudanese but some British; some showed wisdom, but for the most part they were either mad or misguided. Mahjoub writes with a profound, poetic intensity that illuminates a wide range of characters; from the cook to the Mahdi, from an Arab prostitute to the gentle Hawi, whose powerful message combines with the judgment and blindness of the other characters to bind the story together in a satisfying yet disturbing way.
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