REORIENT:

Torn between two worlds — one past and the other only beginning — Naser’s story is not only the swan song of Oriental despotism, but also stands for a country’s struggle to keep a sense of self at a time of rapid change. Adding a ‘flicker of hope’, Abdolah gives his novel a fairytale ending, in which the country lives happily ever after under a new king and a constitutional monarchy. It is a symbolically powerful and — as the narrator confesses — counterfactual fantasy of a nation that manages to balance the ancient with the new.

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