العشب

Two narrators, caught up in the same struggle of being uprooted and putting down roots again, tell a story of Sudan in which grass grows whether rain or blood waters it. A holy man walks thousands of miles to perform the pilgrimage, leaving everything behind; a family is held in quarantine; border visas mark the line between flight and awakening. Locusts strip the pastures, famine and war tear villages apart, and the story reaches Aba Island under shellfire, at the heart of a massacre.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

460 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sudan

First published

2016 by al-Kotob Khan

ISBN

9789778030099 (original)