Wolves of the Crescent Moon

Banned in Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what "The Washington Post" reported about its award-winning author: aYousef Al-Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel GarcA-a MArquez.a In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsidersaa Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuchalinked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, "Wolves of the Crescent Moon" is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world.