{"product_id":"honey-hunger-paperback","title":"Honey Hunger - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eZahran Alqasmi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarilyn Booth\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAzzan is a beekeeper in a rural community in Oman. Devoted to tending his bees and searching for wild hives, he encounters Thamna, a lone shepherd woman, on a mountain slope and is captivated by her and her honey-colored eyes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross the breathtaking vistas of Oman's remote mountains and plains, Azzan's troubled past and present unfold. A disappointment to his family, he turns to drink, and ultimately discovers the healing power of his beekeeping, before an accident in which he loses all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZahran Alqasmi's masterful novel thrums forward with a subtle momentum. His lucid, poetic writing conveys a visceral sense of time and place, of the fragile ecologies inhabited by both bees and humans alike, in this intense and compelling novel of loss and hope.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZahran Alqasmi\u003c\/b\u003e (author) is an Omani poet and novelist, born in the Sultanate of Oman in 1974. \u003ci\u003eHoney\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHunger \u003c\/i\u003ewas his third of four published novels, and in 2023 he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for \u003ci\u003eThe Water Diviner.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHe has also published ten poetry collections and a collection of short stories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Booth\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) is professor emerita, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Magdalen College, Oxford University. She has translated many works of Arabic fiction into English. Her translations of Omani author Jokha Alharthi include\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBitter Orange Tree \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCelestial Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was awarded the International Booker Prize. She has also translated Hoda Barakat, Hassan Daoud, Elias Khoury, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Nawal al-Saadawi. Her research publications focus on Arabophone women's writing and the ideology of gender debates in the nineteenth century, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-si?cle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEgypt.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263038046457,"sku":"9781649033901","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/X1_649AWrn9781649033901.webp?v=1768813915","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/honey-hunger-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}