The Crescent Moon Fox is also a poignant journey of discovery of one's true identity. It gives a voice to Cypriot Turks, of all different backgrounds, and particularly to the illiterate rural women of the Colonial Era.
The span of the novel is from the nineteen thirties to the first decade of the twenty first century - showing the life of the Cypriot Turks, unique and distinct as a minority, in the lead-up to Independence and to what they become in the modern era. Zeki who, shaped and nurtured by the British Colonial system, is destined for great things and Aydin, a misfit in his community who, in his own complex and disturbing way, achieves greatness and redemption. The reader experiences the lives of the inhabitants of one particular village during the lead-up to Independence from Britain and the tragic aftermath of the post-Colonial era in Cyprus - and in particular, of two of its young men: Zeki and Aydin. An accomplished experiment in the poetics of space, Clamor of the Lake won the 1995 Cairo International Book Fair Award for Best Novel of the Year.The Crescent Moon Fox is a compassionate, heart-breaking, brutal, and occasionally, humorous, novel about Cypriot Turks. In Mohamed El-Bisatie’s lyrical novel, the stories of these various figures converge on the mercurial presence of the lake, which in the end proves the narrative’s true hero. Eventually, they too will be haunted by the siren song of the lake. As the tumult of the lake drives a wedge between the couple, it turns two neighbors into close allies: Karawia, a café proprietor, and Afifi, a grocer. But when the waves cast up a chest that speaks in a language no one can comprehend, Gomaa is haunted by its voice. Meanwhile, in a nearby village by the lake, Gomaa and his wife have found respite from the dreariness of their existence in the fantastic objects the sea churns up during gales-a sword, alluring panties, a talisman. While he gives away nothing about his past, his undemanding companionship prompts the woman to narrate her turbulent life. Taciturn and enigmatic, he takes on a woman and her twin boys.
Confounding stereotypical images of life in Saudi Arabia, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a moving, troubling, and ultimately redemptive story of pain remembered and hope restored.Ĭlamor of the Lake begins with the appearance of an old fisherman of unknown origin sailing a black boat. In this elegantly constructed narrative, Yousef Al-Mohaimeed reveals the surprising connections in the life stories of three damaged people-the Bedouin, the orphan, and the eunuch-to tell a haunting tale of modern Saudi society. As Turad imagines the life of this abandoned child, his memories stray into the secrets of his own past, and that of his friend Amm Tawfiq, an old Sudanese man brought to Saudi Arabia as a child, castrated, and sold into servitude. By chance, he happens upon a green folder left behind by another traveler, containing official reports about an abandoned baby born outside wedlock and found in a cardboard box, and documents about his subsequent years in an orphanage and a foster home. Born into a Bedouin family, Turad left his desert home as a young man to work in the city-as a tea-boy, car-washer, security guard, and office messenger-after a traumatic event that cost him his left ear. In a Riyadh bus station, Turad, a bitter older man, resolves to leave the city he has come to loathe. Naguib Mahfouz Fund for Translations of Arabic Literature.The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
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