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Banned in Saudia Arabia, this is a blistering look at Arab and American hypocrisy following the discovery of oil in a poor oasis community.

A major new Aventura: one of the greatest contemporary novels in the Arabic language, translated for the first time into English. Reveals and humanizes a society that has for too long been misunderstood, and should therefore command the serious attention of American reviewers.

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Overview

Banned in Saudia Arabia, this is a blistering look at Arab and American hypocrisy following the discovery of oil in a poor oasis community.

A major new Aventura: one of the greatest contemporary novels in the Arabic language, translated for the first time into English. Reveals and humanizes a society that has for too long been misunderstood, and should therefore command the serious attention of American reviewers.

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Originally published in Beirut in 1984, this multipage epic brings to life many of the political issues that have plagued the Mideast for most of this century. Set in an unnamed gulf country that could be Jordan sometime in the 1930s, the novel relates what happens to the bedouin inhabitants of the small oasis community of Wadi al-Uyoun when oil is discovered by Americans. Seen through the eyes of a large and varied cast of bedouin characters, the upheaval caused by the American colonization is shown in various manifestations, from the first contact with the strange foreigners (``Their smell could kill birds!'' observes Miteb al-Hathal, who later leads a rebellion of Arab workers when the village of Harran has been made into an American port city) to confused and suspicious descriptions of the sinister ``magic'' tools brought by the Americanswhich are in fact bulldozers, automobiles, radios and telephones. The story unfolds at a stately pace over a timespan of many years and provides an endless stream of characters and events, each connected to the next by many threads of plot. Theroux's sensitive translation conveys the subtleties of ambiguity and nuance inherent to the Arab language and culture. Banned in several Mideast countries including Saudi Arabia, this is the first volume of a planned trilogy by a Paris-based Jordanian novelist who holds a law degree from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D. in oil economics from the University of Belgrade. Despite the Lawrence of Arabia setting, Munif writes from a unique vantage point; English-language readers have been given few opportunities before now to look at this situation through native eyes. (January 27)
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Banned in several Middle Eastern countries, this novel records the encounter between Americans and Arabs in an unnamed Gulf emirate in the 1930s. As oil exploration begins, the destruction of an oasis community amounts to ``a breaking off, like death, that nothing and no one could ever heal.'' The promise inherent in the creation of a city divided into Arab and American sectors provides the novel's most striking revelation: here not merely two cultures, but two ages, meetand stand apart. Alternatively amused and bewildered by the Americans and their technological novelties, the Arabs sense in their accommodation to modernity the betrayal of their own traditions. Highly recommended, if only for its cross-cultural insights.L.M. Lewis, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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Set in a Persian Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, where the discovery of oil belies the existence of a poor oasis community, this story portrays the cultural confrontation that results when Americans colonize the area. "...opens up new vistas to the imagination."--Graham Greene.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780394755267
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/28/1989
  • Edition description: 1st Vintage International ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 640
  • Sales rank: 382,617
  • Series: International Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.17 (w) x 7.98 (h) x 1.34 (d)
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  • Posted December 21, 2009

    great book... terrible on-line B&N experience

    munif was recommended by a syrian friend as a way to both experience the roots of arab culture and how the oil industrialization of the world changed everything... and how we feel that today in terms of cultural misunderstandings, terrorism, isolationism, etc...

    i have read this whole series and i really recommend Munif...

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