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Two storylines run through the novel. The first starts from a real episode in the life of Miguel de Cervantes, who as a young man spent several years in Algiers as a captive of pirates, an experience that perhaps made him a writer of world stature. The second follows Sidi Hamet, a character borrowed from Cervantes's novel: a crazed dervish who has lost his mind from endlessly reading the great Arab travellers, and who wanders through real and fictional lands in the company of a lame she-camel and a child found in the desert. The two lines meet when the dervish and the soldier Saavedra share an Algerian prison. It is a book about the meeting of cultures, the discovery of new worlds, land turning to desert and the power of imagination.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

220 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Algeria

First published

2021 by Druhé město

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9788072278718 (original)