Sarah's review
Wolves of the Crescent Moon
by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Sarah's review
Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Sarah's review
rating:
recommended for: people who like stream of conciousness, people interested in Arabic culture and locales
Do identity crises always happen in bus stations? Wolves of the Crescent Moon follows that mental wanderings of a man who has found himself at loose ends after losing his latest job. He goes to the Ryadh bus station to catch the first bus to who knows where and ends up spending the night in the waiting room with his thoughts.
Turad lives at the bottom of the social order in Saudi Arabia. He's neither educated, skilled ot smooth enough to be successful in the big city. Yet, he's not cheap enough to compete with foreign workers who will tkae the worst jobs, so he is stuck in the margins. He is angry and confused and trapped.
While sitting in the waiting room, he remembers stories people have told him, memories of his own life and he makes up stories about people he sees in the bus station (well, who hasn't done that. That's how I spend my time in airports; watching people, guessing their life histories and inventing new ones for them). Mohameed's writing style has a way of b...more
Turad lives at the bottom of the social order in Saudi Arabia. He's neither educated, skilled ot smooth enough to be successful in the big city. Yet, he's not cheap enough to compete with foreign workers who will tkae the worst jobs, so he is stuck in the margins. He is angry and confused and trapped.
While sitting in the waiting room, he remembers stories people have told him, memories of his own life and he makes up stories about people he sees in the bus station (well, who hasn't done that. That's how I spend my time in airports; watching people, guessing their life histories and inventing new ones for them). Mohameed's writing style has a way of b...more
