Latest Review: Wolves of the Crescent Moon
Our latest review is of Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef
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Wolves of the Crescent Moon
Wolves of the Crescent Moon—the first of Yousef Al-Mohaimeed’s works to be translated into English—tells the stories of three men at the fringes of Saudi Arabian society, all missing a crucial body part. The first is the narrator Turad, a coffee boy at ministry who lost his ear and is taunted mercilessly ...
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First Great Saudi Novel?
Included on our list of best translations of 2007, Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed got a nice review in the NY Sun this. In fact, Ben Lytal goes so far as to point to this as the “First Great Saudi Novel”: Those Saudi novels that do get published — even those that must be published abroad ...
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