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Mbarek Ould Beyrouk's greatly acclaimed novel Saara was the winner of the prestigious Prix Littéraire Les Afriques 2023. The story is told through three different narrators, Saara, an attractive young woman who is both unconventional, liberated and determined; the Sheikh, a young man who succeeds his father as the leader of a Sufi order striving to live exemplary lives in their oasis community and follow the path to salvation and the Beggar, befriended by Saara and who cares devotedly for his disabled mother and is the voice of the marginalised. It is their story and their lives are intertwined as the narrative embraces the whole gamut of life in Mauritania, with the conflict between city and desert life, tradition and modernity. Saara, travels to the oasis to visit the dying mother she hasn't seen since childhood. She arrives too late, but is made to feel at home by the inhabitants. She feels drawn towards the young Sheikh who is also attracted to Saara. Against a backdrop of insecurity caused by the effects of climate change, both become involved in a fight with the town's mayor about plans to build a dam in the oasis. It is a fight they cannot win and changes the lives of everybody. The Beggar's revenge on the people who have abused him brings the novel to a dramatic conclusion. AUTHOR: Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) was born in Atar, Mauritania, in 1957. A journalist, he founded the country's first ever independent newspaper, Mauritanie Demain, in 1988, and is a recognised champion of free speech. He was honoured for his media work in 2006 through an appointment to the Higher Authority for the Printed and Audiovisual Press in Mauritania, and he is currently an advisor to the President of the Republic.

About the Author :
Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) was born in Atar, Mauritania, in 1957. A journalist, he founded the country's first ever independent newspaper, Mauritanie Demain, in 1988, and is a recognised champion of free speech. He was honoured for his media work in 2006 through an appointment to the Higher Authority for the Printed and Audiovisual Press in Mauritania, and he is currently an advisor to the President of the Republic. He has writen seven novels, two of which have been translated by Dedalus The Desert and the Drum and Saara. Rachael McGill is a playwright for stage and radio, prose writer and translator of novels and plays from French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Her short stories have been published in several anthologies and online. She has translated three books for Dedalus: The Desert and the Drum, Saara by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk and Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza. Her translation of The Desert and the Drum was shortlisted for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

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"Beyrouk presents this story with almost disarming ease; there is a casualness to the storytelling - especially in the sheikh's philosophical but also forthright and natural accounts - that keeps the novel from succumbing to the trap that so much fiction pitting the traditional and capitalist modernity falls into. Yet there's also a great deal of raw darkness here - and, admirably, Beyrouk realistically limits that amount of light that brightens the scenes. So also the resolutions and conclusion impress - down to the final devastating plunge into the abyss." -M.A. Orthofer in The Complete Review


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  • ISBN-13: 9781915568687
  • Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Dedalus Ltd
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Series Title: 10 Dedalus Africa
  • ISBN-10: 1915568684
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: French
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 126 mm


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