Los contrabandistas de libros
Current price:
$25.95
Publication Date: July 1st, 2018
Publisher:
Malpaso Editorial
ISBN:
9788416665686
Pages:
288
Description
The story starts in ‘80s-era Timbuktu, when bookseller, historian, and librarian Abdel Kader Haidara received an order to search for and rescue tens of thousands of lost ancient manuscripts. He is derailed from this formidable task when, in 2012, thousands of Al Qaeda militants take control of Mali. After sharia law is imposed and calls for the destruction of historical manuscripts, Haidara must organize a dangerous clandestine operation to smuggle 300,00 manuscripts out of the occupied city.
Praise for Los contrabandistas de libros
“Part history, part scholarly adventure story and part journalist survey of the volatile religious politics of the Maghreb region. . . . Hammer writes with verve and expertise.”—New York Times Book Review, on the English-language edition