Of Sea and Sand
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789774168031
Subjects: Fiction, occult & supernatural; Middle east, fiction; Ireland, fiction; Fiction, suspense
Description: Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jinn-a supernatural being-but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore, despite her sudden, unexplained disappearance. Twenty-six years later, Irishwoman Thea Kerrigan lands in Muscat, chasing her own ghosts from the past, and is approached by Gabriel, who believes she is his lost lover. Certain that they have never met before, Thea is nonetheless drawn to this deluded, and perhaps dangerous, strange.