The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

The Desert and the Drum

Mbarek Ould Beyrouk with Rachael McGill (Translator)

224 pages first pub 2015 (view editions)

fiction literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
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The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It won the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2016.Everything changes for Rayhana when foreigners with strange machines arrive to mine for metal near her Bedouin...

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