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    Under the Tripoli Sky

    By Kamal Ben Hamada

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    A fascinating portrait of a pre-Gaddafi society on the verge of change.

    Tripoli in the 1960s. A sweltering, segregated society. Hadachinou is a lonely boy. His mother shares secrets with her best friend Jamila while his father prays at the mosque. Sneaking through the sun-drenched streets of Tripoli, he listens to the whispered stories of the women. He turns into an invisible witness to their repressed desires while becoming aware of his own.

    Why Peirene chose to publish this book: ‘This is a fascinating portrait of a closed society. On the surface this quiet vignette of a story could be read as gently nostalgic, but underneath the author reveals the seething tensions of a traditional city coming to terms with our modern world. The book gives us privileged access to a place where men and women live apart and have never learned to respect each other.’Meike Ziervogel

    ‘The reader feels he is peeking through a half-drawn curtain on a secret feminine world in a patriarchal society . . . Excellent.’David Mills,Sunday Times

    ‘Beautifully simple and restrained prose.’Lucy Popescu,Huffington Post

    ‘It ought to be commended for its lack of sentimentality about this much-mythologized chapter of modern Libya.’Hasham Matar,Times Literary Supplement

    ‘A short but shimmering read.’Malcolm Forbes,National
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeirene Press
    Release dateSep 24, 2014
    ISBN9781908670175
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      1960s LibyaBy sally tarbox on 19 March 2018Format: Kindle EditionA fairly lyrical, poetic novella set in 1960s Libya. The feel of the place washes over the reader, the heat, the sea, the mythology... With his father often away, young Hadachinou is surrounded by women. His mother, who seems to resent him; aunts; servants; friends. Some are oppressed by their men while others have struggled to achieve freedom. On the cusp of adolescence, the boy imbibes the atmosphere around him.Quite well-written but ultimately forgettable.