Honey Hunger (Hardback)
Hardback or Cased Book 00292 pages Feb 04, 2025
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WINNER OF THE 2025 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION "An evocative, unpredictable novel."--Words Without BordersA breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope Azzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her and her honey-colored eyes. Across the breathtaking vistas of Oman's remote mountains and plains, Azzan's troubled past and present unfold. A disappointment to his family, he turns to drink, and ultimately discovers the healing power of his beekeeping, before an accident in which he loses all. Zahran Alqasmi's masterful novel thrums forward with a subtle momentum. His lucid, poetic writing conveys a visceral sense of time and place, of the fragile ecologies inhabited by both bees and humans alike, in this intense and compelling novel of loss and hope.
- Author:
- Zahran Alqasmi
- Publisher:
- Hoopoe
- Publication Date:
- Feb 04, 2025
- Number of pages:
- 00292 pages
- Binding:
- Hardback or Cased Book
- ISBN-10:
- 1649033915
- ISBN-13:
- 9781649033918