Cities of Salt

Monumental five-volume chronicle, set in an unnamed Arab state of the Gulf, recounting the transformation of a traditional desert society following the discovery of oil. Saudi Arabia both banned the book and withdrew the author?s Saudi passport even though the late Munif always insisted the work was fiction.

Author: 
Munif, Abd al-Rahman
Title: 
Cities of Salt
Publisher: 
Vintage Books
Place of Publication: 
Saudi Arabia
Date: 
1993
Subject Area: 
Fiction
Original Language: 
Arabic
Translator: 
Peter Theroux
ISBN: 
0-679-74533-5
Description: 

Monumental five-volume chronicle, set in an unnamed Arab state of the Gulf, recounting the transformation of a traditional desert society following the discovery of oil. Saudi Arabia both banned the book and withdrew the author?s Saudi passport even though the late Munif always insisted the work was fiction.