Mauritania

The latest addition to my website is Mbarek Ould Beyrouk‘s Saara (Saaara). We get the first person narration of three characters. The eponymous Saara had a violent father, causing her mother to leave and, later, her sister. She has parties and affairs but is something of a lost soul, The young sheikh heads a Sufi … Read more

The latest addition to my website is Mohamedou Ould Salahi‘s The Actual True Story of Ahmed and Zarga. Mohamedou Ould Salahi is best-known for having been unjustly imprisoned in Guantánamo for fourteen years but this novel, which he wrote in English, has nothing to do with his imprisonment. Indeed, no Westerners appear in it at … Read more