{"product_id":"mansours-eyes","title":"Mansour's Eyes, by  Ryad Girod","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod’s shimmering account of one man’s heresy and imminent execution.\"—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/strong\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. Gassouh! Gassouh!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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, \u003cem\u003eMansour’s Eyes\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLa Croix\u003c\/em\u003e, Sabine Audrerie saw the novel’s contrast between political power and spiritual withdrawal as central, and praised its beauty.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60138093904217,"sku":"Shelf X3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0692\/6021\/files\/9781945492365.jpg?v=1792861287","url":"https:\/\/www.quaybooksstore.com\/products\/mansours-eyes","provider":"Quay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}