Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
Auteur van The Desert and the Drum
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Beyrouk, Mbarek Ould
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- مبارك ولد بيروك
- Geboortedatum
- 1957
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Mauritania
- Geboorteplaats
- Atar, Mauritania
- Beroepen
- journalist
advisor to the President of Mauritania
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Mauritania (3)
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- 42
- Populariteit
- #357,757
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 8
- Talen
- 1
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel to be translated into English from the largely Islamic northwest African nation of Mauritania. Although this translation is from French, so slightly puzzling as to why this took so long.
Rayhana is a young Bedouin woman whose life is turned upside-down when foreigners arrive to mine for metals nearby her camp. She falls for the charming Yahya, leading to her having to flee the camp and stealing their precious rezzam or tribal drum.
She flees to the nearby town in search of former slave girl Mbarka. Here she is confronted by many new things and a new way of life, illustrating the contradictions in contemporary Mauritania, and the struggles of being a young woman here. Rayhana is full of anger at her tribe and at the injustices perpetrated against her. The ending of the book felt abrupt and somewhat unsatisfactory. I appreciated some of the insights into this country but I felt some of it was probably over my head.… (meer)