Recensione:
His fiction has both tenderness and melancholy. It is charged with the sadness of hopes unfulfilled and of friendships betrayed in a country in which the long shadows of myth and history fall across the lives of the poor as well as the powerful...He is the Thomas Hardy of Egypt. (Margaret Drabble, Guardian)
SUNSET OASIS is a highly ambitious and accomplished work (Nagham Osman)
SUNSET OASIS is a work of fiction in which nothing is small or petty, and everything in it - the theme, the workmanship, and even the size - is large. (Mona Anis)
A subtle cast of characters emotively bring the complexity of politics to vivid, powerful life (Zena Alkayat, Metro)
Fascinating...The most compelling journey is that of Mahmoud inwards, an accurate and sensitive portrayal of the honest but weak man (Navtej Sarna, Times Literary Supplement)
L'autore:
Bahaa Taher was born in 1935 in Cairo, Egypt. He was active in the country's left-wing literary circles of the 1960s and in the mid 1970s was prevented from publishing his work. After many years of exile in Switzerland, he has recently returned to Egypt. Now one of the most widely read novelists in the Arab world, Taher has received the State's Award of Merit in Literature, the highest honour the Egyptian establishment can confer on a writer. He is the author of four collections of short stories, several plays and works of non-fiction, and six novels. In 2008 he was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction for SUNSET OASIS.
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