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The Light of the Sands

Translator: Prozhogina Svetlana

Москва, 2012, 240 p.

Mustafa Tlili is a Tunisian of American origin. He writes in French. All his 5 novels were published in France by prestigious editorial house “Gallimar” and were highly appreciated by critics and readers. Now they belong to the classics of French-language literature of the XXth cent. They are translated into the most important languages of the world. The presented novel of the writer widely known in the West is written in the form of classical detective story and introduces a tragic history of a Muslim intellectual, seeking for his place in life. The hero has already found this place in Western civilization. He is a successful doctor, living and working in America, being a husband of a beautiful woman from American high society. It seems that he should not have any problem. Still he tries to search for the mentality of his predecessors whom he had left long before. As a result he finds himself in the world of Middle East terrorists. The reader traces the hero with the novelist, investigating this story, and unexpectedly discovers that private love-detective story is connected with conflicts, tragedies and terrorist acts about which he is regularly informed by mass media.

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