Honey Hunger by Alqasmi, Zahran
Honey Hunger by Alqasmi, Zahran

Honey Hunger

"An evocative, unpredictable novel."-Words Without BordersA breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by...
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Author: Zahran Alqasmi
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Honey Hunger by Alqasmi, Zahran

Honey Hunger

$28.22
Honey Hunger by Alqasmi, Zahran

Honey Hunger

$28.22
Author: Zahran Alqasmi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"An evocative, unpredictable novel."-Words Without Borders

A 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

Azzan 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.

Across 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.

Zahran 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.

Author: Zahran Alqasmi
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9781649033901


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2025 pg. 26

About the Author

Zahran Alqasmi (author) is an Omani poet and novelist, born in the Sultanate of Oman in 1974. He is also a medical doctor, with a specialization in infectious diseases, and keeps bees. Honey Hunger is his third of four published novels and his English language debut. In 2023 he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for The Water Diviner. He has also published ten poetry collections and a collection of short stories.

Marilyn Booth (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 Bitter Orange Tree and Celestial Bodies, which 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 The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt.


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