The confines of the shadow
Subtitle: in lands overseas
By: Alessandro Spina ; translated, edited and introduced by André Naffis-Sahely
Contributors: Naffis-Sahely, André, translator, editor
Publisher: Darf Publisher
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781850772781
Subjects: Translations into English; Fiction; History
Work titles: Confini dell'ombra
Description: This collection of novels and short stories maps the Libyan city of Benghazi's transformation from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters, ranging from Ottoman functionaries to Italian officers, it chronicles Italy's colonial experience, from the euphoria of conquest to the rise and fall of Fascism to Libya's independence in the 1950s, concluding with the discovery of the country's oil fields, which triggered the changes that led to Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship.
Notes: Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: The young Maronite; title: The marriage of Omar; title: The nocturnal visitor.