The Bedouin Red Book (World of Books)

From the house of a peasant, and from the core of a struggling, self-made family, Al-Maghut set out, tearing himself away from his mother to be her gift to existence, then from his country, which was stripped of its vineyards, and exchanged the gold of the ears, the streams of roses, the echoes of the corn market, and the groaning of the slaughterhouses and the willows, for a single season of cotton, which was the shroud of the loaf and the fierce desert hurricane. All hope for the return of life.