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Latest Review: Wolves of the Crescent Moon

Our latest review is of Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef

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 ...

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 ...