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The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. Asouf lives alone in a remote corner of this desert, tending his goats. He is the one whom foreigners seek when they wish to learn about the ancient paintings on the wadi walls or the other secrets of the desert. When two visitors arrive one day, demanding that Asouf lead them to the sacred moufflon, Asouf is shaken to his core and must question every tenet of his father's faith. This story of the confrontation between this bedouin and the two hunters combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the human spirit to resist.

Ibrahim al-Koni, Libya's leading novelist, has been called a master of magical realism. He has distinguished himself for being brilliantly able to create so many ramifications around the simple world of the desert in Western Libya, proving as few have that human nature and the human condition are the same everywhere. He now lives in Europe. This is his first novel to be translated into English. May Jayyusi was born in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian parents, and was educated at universities in London and Boston. Christopher Tingley was born in Brighton, England, and educated at the universities of London and Leeds.