Title The slave yards : a novel / Najwa Bin Shatwan ; translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts

Edition First edition Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2020]

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource Series Middle East literature in translation Middle East literature in translation. Summary "Set in nineteenth-century Ottoman North Africa, The Slave Yards is a heartrending and unexpected love story whose riveting events draw readers into a matrix of social, political, sexual and religious themes that open a window for us into a dark, untold chapter of Libyan history"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Middle Eastern Philology Notes "This book was originally published in Arabic as Zarayib al-Abid (Beirut: Dar al-Saqi, 2016)"--Title page verso Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2020) Subject Slave trade -- Libya -- Fiction Families -- Fiction Arabic fiction -- 21st century FICTION -- Literary. Arabic fiction Families Slave trade Libya -- Fiction Libya Genre/Form Fiction Form Electronic book Author Roberts, Nancy N., translator. LC no. 2020004525 ISBN 0815655096 9780815655091

Other Titles Zarāyib al-ʻabīd. English

  Permalink