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Badawi Paperback - 2016

by Mohed Altrad


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Published to wide critical acclaim in France, Badawi is Mohed Altrad's heartrending debut novel, inspired by the author's own narrative arc from Bedouin orphan to engineer and finally billionaire businessman. In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the boy's powerful father, leaving Maouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped their centuries-long travels across the dunes--their tents long since converted into sedentary shacks--Maouf's grandmother wants him to carry on tradition as a shepherd. But from the first time he sneaks off to the white-walled schoolhouse to watch the other children learn, Maouf envisions a different future for himself. This is one extraordinary child's story of fighting for an education, and a life, he was never supposed to have, from a tiny desert village to the city of Raqqa, from the university halls of Montpellier on to the oil fields of Abu Dhabi. But is a life of exile the one he wants? Can a child whose name means "the abandoned one" ever make a home for himself? With each step forward, he feels the love of his youth--a steadfast young Syrian woman named Fadia--and the shifting, haunted sands of his native village pulling him back toward the past he thought he had left behind.

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  • Title Badawi
  • Author Mohed Altrad
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition International Ed
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, Black Cat
  • Date 2016-09
  • ISBN 9780802125798 / 0802125794
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Middle Eastern
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects France, Success
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2016, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/25/2016, Page 0

About the author

Mohed Altrad was born into a Bedouin tribe in Syria. After earning a PhD in computer science at the University of Montpellier and working for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, he founded Groupe Altrad, a world leader in the concrete and scaffolding industry, and was named the 2015 EY World Entrepreneur of the Year. He has published three other novels in French, L'Hypothse de Dieu, La Promesse d'Annah, and the forthcoming La Reconstruction from Actes Sud.
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