Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif

527 pages first pub 1984 (editions) user-added

fiction historical challenging slow-paced
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Set in an unnamed Persian Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, this remarkable novel tells the story of the disruption and diaspora of a poor oasis community following the discovery of oil there. The meeting of the Arabs and the Americans who, in essence, c...

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