Mythic tale of camels, tribes, vengeance, honor, told with beautiful simplicity by one of the Arab worlds greatest living novelists

Gold Dust was runner-up for the Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation

New in the Hoopoe format: new cover, newly designed interior

Ibrahim Al-Koni was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize

The author's has an amazing backstory having been born in the rural Saharan desert as an ethnic Berber

Translator is in the U.S. teaching at Georgetown University

Praised by Marilyn Booth, translator of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Winner, Celestial Bodies