Wings of Dust by Jamal Mahjoub (1994, Paperback, Reissue) 
Wings of Dust by Jamal Mahjoub (1994, Paperback, Reissue)
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication Date: 1994-09-06
Series: African Writers Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0435909843
ISBN-13: 9780435909840
Product ID: EPID725468
Description: Sharif has been exiled to a hotel in southwest France. While there, he remembers his life in England and France, as well as the ever-increasing political foment in his native North Africa. Now, as he reaches this crucial period in his li...
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Synopsis
Sharif has been exiled to a hotel in southwest France. While there, he remembers his life in England and France, as well as the ever-increasing political foment in his native North Africa. Now, as he reaches this crucial period in his life, Sharif must make sense of his past.

Details
Publication Date:1994-09-06
Series:African Writers Series
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Exiled in a delapidated hotel in South-West France. Sharif, the narrator, looks back on his life. Memories of a bohemian existence in England and France, a time of love affairs and dissipation, are set against the changing political situation of his North African homeland. The experience of his own nation, with its promise of freedom, is echoed in Sharif's life. With sardonic humour Sharif describes the wealth of characters who have passed through his life. Yet how can he make sense of this life as everything he believes in begins to crumble?

In limbo, as a wave toward returning to Islamic tradition instills suspicion toward this individualism, Turab tries to make some sense of his life as everything that he believes in begins to crumble.

This narrative story is told by Sharif Turab, a middle-aged man living in exile in France from an unnamed North East African country, a member of the first generation after African independence to go to the continent as ambassadors and ministers, an opening of the gates toward contact with the ideas and lifestyles of Europe. In limbo, as a wave toward returning to Islamic tradition instills suspicion toward this individualism, Turab tries to make some sense of his life as everything that he believes in begins to crumble. "Wings of Dust" is a distinctive mixture of intensity and anarchic movement, humorous and moving.

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