Wings of Dust

by Jamal Mahjoub

Overview

In this brilliantly clever fictionalised memoir, award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation.

Exiled in a dilapidated hotel in South-West France, Sharif looks back on his rich and eventful life to date. Memories of a bohemian existence in England and France – a time of love affairs and excess – clash with more recent memories of navigating the volatile and unprecedented political situation in North Africa.

With wry wit, Sharif recalls the wealth of extraordinary characters who have passed through his life and tries to make sense of an existence lived in disarray.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803288314
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jamal Mahjoub was born in London in 1960 and spent his formative years in Khartoum, Sudan. Since then he has settled in a number of cities, including London, Aarhus, Barcelona and, more recently, Amsterdam.

The author of seven novels, his work, fiction and non-fiction, has been critically acclaimed and widely translated. He has published six crime novels featuring private detective Makana, using the pen name Parker Bilal.

To find out more, visit jamalmahjoub.com.
Jamal Mahjoub was born in London in 1960 to an English mother and a Sudanese father. The family moved to Liverpool in 1961, and then to Khartoum, Sudan. Mahjoub returned to England in 1981 to study Geology at Sheffield University.

Mahjoub is an award-winning author. In 1993, he won the Guardian Heinemann African short story competition and went on to be shortlisted for the 2005 Caine Prize. He also won the 2006 NH Hotels Mario Vargas Llosa prize for his short story, 'Carrer Princesa'.

He is currently married with two children.

To find out more, visit jamalmahjoub.com.
Jamal Mahjoub was born in London in 1960 and spent his formative years in Khartoum, Sudan.

Since then he has settled in a number of cities, including London, Aarhus, Barcelona and, more recently, Amsterdam. The author of seven novels, his work, fiction and non-fiction, has been critically acclaimed and widely translated. He has published six crime novels featuring private detective Makana, using the pen name Parker Bilal.

To find out more, visit jamalmahjoub.com.

Editorial Reviews

An interesting point of view and a smart, observant voice” —Kirkus Reviews

“A rich picture, both of Africa's vast, seemingly insuperable problems – and of the moral dilemmas faced by a well-meaning, ineffectual stranger” —Observer, on Navigation of a Rainmaker

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