{"product_id":"mansours-eyes","title":"Mansour's Eyes","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMansour's Eyes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRyad Girod\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781945492365\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eTransit Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCapitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod's shimmering account of one man's heresy and imminent execution.--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMansour al-Jazaïri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. \u003ci\u003eGassouh! Gassouh!\u003c\/i\u003e It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, \u003ci\u003eMansour's Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather, the Emir Abdelkader; that of Algerian independence; and that of another Mansour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Sufi mystic executed in 922. In this lyrical and ambitious novel, Ryad Girod looks at the post-Arab Spring world as its drive toward modernity threatens to sever its relationship with the ethos of Sufi thought and mysticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Mansour's Eyes | Ryad Girod | Quality | 9781945492365 | New | Fiction 1209566","offer_id":50550514319618,"sku":"1209566","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51xhRWRiy8L.jpg?v=1790467563","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/mansours-eyes","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}