Saïd lives in a one-room hut among the sandhills outside a Syrian coastal town, beside the fig tree nearest the sea. Cunning, vain and ruled by his luck, he leaves his nets for adventures in Damascus and beyond, through riot, war, wealth and ruin, and Pickthall tells it all with the flavour of an Arabic tale.
A remarkable novel of the Levant by the Englishman who later translated the Qur’an. Download the free EPUB.