Book description
International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world's most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa
The year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary…
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Ibrahim al-Koni is a Libyan novelist little known in the English-speaking world.
Set in the seventh century, Night Will Have Its Say is a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa narrated from the perspective of the conquered peoples.
Written in Al-Koni’s unique and enchanting voice, his lyrical prose speaks to themes that are intensely timely. In detailing conflicts is a distant time and place, he addresses the futility of war, the privilege of the elite at the expense of the many, and the destruction of indigenous cultures and natural habitats.
The book is highly…
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