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Sunset Oasis

Sunset Oasis Bahaa Taher
Pub date 3rd September 2009
Original publisher Dar El Shorouk (Egypt)
Publisher (UK) Sceptre
International publishers Buybook (Bosnia), Obsidian (Bulgaria), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), Gallimard (France), Unionsverlag (Germany), Livanis (Greece), Vogmostad & Bjorke (Norway), POLIROM (Romania), Dogan Egmont Yayincilik ve Yapimcilik Tic A.S (Turkey), Turner Libros (Spain), Alhambra (Sweden)

Winner of the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction

A vivid, compelling historical tale set in late nineteenth-century Egypt.

When Mahmoud, a disgraced Egyptian officer, is posted to the remote desert town of Siwa, his Irish wife insists on accompanying him, to pursue the secrets of Alexander the Great. Neither is prepared for the stultifying heat, the hostility of the townspeople, or the astonishing and disturbing events that befall them in the dreamlike other-worldliness of the Sunset Oasis.

In turns mesmerizing and shocking, Sunset Oasis is an enthralling story of mystery and frustrated passions set against the backdrop of an exotic locale in the late 1800s.

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