Wolves of the Crescent Moon

<b>The first great Saudi novel. --<i>The New York Sun</i></b><br> <b> </b><br> Banned in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia this provocative fast-paced debut novel confirms what <i>The Washington Post</i> reported about its award-winning author: Yousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez. <p/> In a Riyadh bus station a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within a larger picture emerges of three outsiders--a Bedouin an orphan and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. <p/> Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night <i>Wolves of the Crescent Moon</i> is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.