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Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For July 28, Coté will read aloud from Ibrahim Al-Koni’s novel The Bleeding of the Stone.
Summary: A prized book by one of Libya’s most prolific Arab novelists, Ibrahim El Koni’s The Bleeding of the Stone follows the story of a Bedouin herder who lives in Libya’s southern desert tasked with watching over ancient caves.
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found.
Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the human spirit to resist.
The Bleeding of the Stone touches on realism, mysticism, nature and the encroachment of foreigners on one’s homeland.
Born in 1948 in the Fezzan Region, Ghadamis City, Ibrahim Kuni was brought up on the tradition of the Tuareg, popularly known as “the veiled men” or “the blue men.”
Mythological elements, spiritual quest and existential questions mingle in the writings of Kuni who has been hailed as magical realist, Sufi fabulist and poetic novelist.
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Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net