Série: -
Autor: Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
Data de Leitura: 05/12/2022 ⮞ 23/12/2022
Classificação: ⭐⭐⭐
Sinopse
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016.Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin camp. One of them is the enigmatic Yahya. Rayhana's association with him leads to her abandoning all she knows and fleeing alone to the city. When her tribe discover she's stolen their sacred drum they pursue her to exact their revenge. Though Rayhana has her own missing person to seek.The Desert and the Drum tells of Rayhana's rift with her family, the disturbing characters she encounters in the metropolis, her attempts to separate friend from foe and to find a place for herself amidst the contradictions of contemporary Mauritania.
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Rayhana é uma jovem mulher, membro da tribo Oulad Mahmoud, que cresceu longe do mundo moderno, não frequentou a escola e nunca teve contacto com outro tipo de vida para além dos costumes tradicionais da sua aldeia.
A história começa com a fuga de Rayhana que viaja durante a noite pelas dunas do deserto em busca de uma nova vida
It was time to detach myself from the old ways: I was no longer from here. I was from nowhere, and I was going faraway. Straight ahead.
Mas, não vai sozinha. Carrega com ela um objecto sagrado da sua tribo.
The tribal drum, the rezzam, was never allowed to touch the earth, or be held by an impure hand. It was not allowed to leave the heart of the camp. The drum was the tribe; its presence, its confidence, its voice.
The Desert and the Drum é um romance de conflitos entre a tradição e a modernidade - não propriamente um contra o outro, mas principalmente os conflitos dentro de cada um.
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