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The Bleeding of the Stone

Ibrahim al-Koni,

May Jayyusi (Translator)

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Nov 18, 2022 Rachel rated it really liked it

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"I tell you. Be patient. How can you live in the desert without patience? The man who was never granted its contentment will never be happy there. I tell you. Use patience and cunning, they're the secrets of the desert...."

"Only through dust will the son of Adam be filled."

This little book was translated from Arabic, the author was born in the Fezzan region of Libya and grew up in the Sahara desert, only learning to read and write when he was 12. Al-Koni is of the Tuareg people, a Berber group w ...more

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Nov 11, 2012 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it liked it

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"I tell you. Be patient. How can you live in the desert without patience? The man who was never granted its contentment will never be happy there. I tell you. Use patience and cunning, they're the secrets of the desert...."
Asouf is a Bedouin living alone with his sheep in the cave-laden mountains of Libya. This novel tells his story and also stories of several surrounding characters, while also dipping into magical realism and mysticism.

There is a fair amount of description of gazelles vs. wadda ...more

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