by JonathanWright (Translator), Amjad Nasser (Author)
Land of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. The main character was forced into exile from Hamiya twenty years earlier for taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return to his homeland, he encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. Land of No Rain is a complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Published: 24 Apr 2014
ISBN 10: 9992194588
ISBN 13: 9789992194584
Book Overview: 'An irresistible shape-shifting novel' The Guardian