Historical fiction books set in Libya (3)
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The Slave Yards : A Novel by Najwa Bin Shatwan EN
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Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan’s powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily married with two children and working. When her cousin Ali unexpectedly enters her life, Atiqa learns the true identity of her parents, both long deceased, and slowly builds a friendship with Ali as they share stories of their past. We learn of Atiqa’s childhood, growing up in the “slave yards,” a makeshift encampment on the outskirts of Benghazi for Black Africans who were brought to Libya as slaves. A... continue
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Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni EN
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Gold Dust is a classic story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. It is a story of the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER SHORTLISTED AUTHOR 'The first Booker contender of 2024... a deeply touching, beautifully composed book' Sunday Times'My Friends is a brilliant novel about innocence and experience, about friendship, family and exile. It makes clear, on[Bokinfo].
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