Ibrahim al-Koni

The Puppet

Allegorical novella about identity and destiny in the Saharan landscape

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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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