Book
Nubūʼat al-saqqā : riwāyah
Call Number
- ARABIC FICTION NAZI (OSH)
Edition
al-Ṭabʻah al-thānīyah.
Languages
In Arabic.
Publication Information
880-04 Tūnis ; Bayrūt ; al-Qāhirah : Dār al-Tanwīr lil-Ṭibāʻah wa-al-Nashr, 2016.
Physical Description
252 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
The Prophecy of Saqqa is set in the 1960s, in the town of Ajayib in the hills of the Eritrean coast, where the "Ahfad", slaves to their masters the "Awtad", struggle for freedom. When a powerful Awtad asks to marry a beautiful woman from the Ahfad, they see the marriage as their chance for liberation, as prophesied. However, the Awtad look upon the proposed marriage with foreboding and do everything in their power to stop it from taking place. These events coincide with the early days of the Eritrean armed struggle for independence from Ethiopia. Its successes and failures and the divisions within the revolutionary leadership form the background to the events of the novel.
Notes
Novel.