Ibrahim al-Koni

The Bleeding of the Stone

Symbolic novel about a shepherd and magician in the Sahara desert

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Ibrahim al-Koni
Ibrahim al-Koni

Libyan novelist who has built a vast body of work from the Tuareg desert culture of the Sahara. The Bleeding of the Stone and Gold Dust are dark, mythic meditations on man, nature, and the encroachment of modernity on ancient ways.

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