{"product_id":"the-night-will-have-its-say-a-novel-9781649031983","title":"The Night Will Have Its Say: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu'man. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to defeat them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Night Will Have Its Say \u003c\/i\u003eis a retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North Africa during the seventh century CE, narrated from the perspective of the conquered peoples. Written in Ibrahim al-Koni's unique and enchanting voice, his lyrical and deeply poetic prose speaks to themes that are intensely timely. Through the wars and conflicts of this distant, turbulent era, he addresses the futility of war, the privilege of an elite few at the expense of the many, the destruction of natural habitats and indigenous cultures, and questions about literal and fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAl-Koni's masterly account of conquest and resistance is both timeless and timely, infused with a sense of disaster and exile—from language, the desert, and homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I loved \u003ci\u003eThe Night Will Have Its Say\u003c\/i\u003e. Ibrahim al-Koni weaves a magical tale of a world where female power and the polyphony of the feminine are a given, where the earth and the heavens are in constant dialogue, and where ancestors and scriptures are alive and present.\"—\u003cb\u003eNadia Wassef, author of \u003ci\u003eShelf Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rich text. . . with gripping scenes and confrontations, and some fascinating underlying conflicts, in particular concerning attitudes towards life, freedom, and conquest . . . . an unusual kind of historical fiction, but certainly worthwhile.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[W]estern readers will be rewarded with insights into the rise of Islam and some lesser-known but important leaders . . . [and] find triggers here that cause one to examine, at least for a while, eternal questions about who we are and where we fit in the larger tides of life.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Novels Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most acclaimed writers in the Arabic world . . . his most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Will Have Its Say\u003c\/i\u003e . . . placed during the Muslim conquest of North Africa in the seventh century CE, written from the perspective of the conquered, he once again returns to the desert that has remained his spiritual home.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAramcoWorld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR IBRAHIM AL-KONI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A magnificent novelist”—\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Booth, \u003c\/b\u003etranslator of the International Booker Prize winner, \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the Arab world’s most innovative novelists”—\u003cb\u003eRoger Allen, \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The desert setting is al-Koni's strength: its expanse, desolation, and mystery are powerfully evoked.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanipal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Al-Koni's story, simply and elegantly told, has all the inevitability of a Greek tragedy--or, better, all the tribulations of Job.\"\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Al-Koni’s novels are aesthetic renderings of the passions of the desert and of the rich legends and cosmology of his people. An encyclopedic writer who has digested mythologies of the ancient world and literature of the modern world, al-Koni has both a poetic bent and a mystical inclination.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAl Ahram Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A true journey into the human psyche”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCairo Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine Cormac McCarthy’s savage lyricism in a Paul Bowles desert landscape and you begin to enter the bleakly beautiful world of this mesmerizing, fable-like novel.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American University in Cairo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041975959895,"sku":"9781649031983","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781649031983.jpg?v=1750952442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-night-will-have-its-say-a-novel-9781649031983","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}