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  • The Sacrifice of Black Cows

    A Novel from Morocco

    by Moha Layid ...
    Translated by Paul A. Silverstein ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

  • Le sacrifice des vaches noires

    Une histoire marocaine

    by Moha Layid ...
    Series Book 44 - MLA Texts and Translations
    An oasis community in Morocco hopes to stop a devastating drought by sacrificing black cows to satisfy the spirits. But the wise elder Bassou secretly plans a different solution: to sabotage the motorized pumps that have lowered the water table and nearly destroyed the subsistence farming and herding that support the local way of life. The young newlywed Yidir agrees to help him and eventually ... Read more

    $36.00 USD

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    Translated by Maryam Mafi ...
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  • Season of Migration to the North

    by Tayeb Salih ...
    The story of a man undone by a culture that in part created him, Season of Migration to the North, is a powerful and evocative examination of colonization in two vastly different worlds.When a young man returns to his village in the Sudan after many years studying in Europe, he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa''eed. As the two become friends, ... Read more

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