Böcker av Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

This haunting and elegiac novel provides a moving portrayal of the modern world encroaching on the old ways in sub-Saharan Africa as told from the alternating voices of a father in prison and his son on the outside struggling to survive.

The first novel from Mauritania to be translated into English, in which Rayhana leaves her Bedouin tribe with metal-mining outsiders, with complications ensuing.