The Arch and the Butterfly by Mohamed Achari
Winner of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction - The Arab Booker 2011. As he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef al-Firsiwi finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance. Yousif, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his Moroccan father and German-born mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. He turns for support to his friends Ahmad and Ibrahim, themselves enmeshed in ever more complex business and criminal dealings, and he struggles to reconnect with his father. With his world already shattered, and finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Yousif begins to question everything including his own values and identity.
A wonderful novel with great literary quality that deals with important and realistic problems in the Middle East, problems which have been reflected on banners during the protests that have shaken the Arab world, demanding change IPAF Judging Panel Achaari is a poet and this is definitely visible in his fiction writing Khaleej Times The result is an impressive, if bleak, fictional exploration into the roots of radical Islam - and the difficulties challenging it-- David Evans The Independent
Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers. His work has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789992179055 |
| ISBN 10 | 9992179058 |
| Title | The Arch and the Butterfly |
| Author | Mohamed Achari |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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