Description
A storm delivers a boy to the shores of Ras Madrakah, a forgotten village where the sea speaks in riddles and the rocks seem almost alive. Sheikh Shaleh takes the boy in, convinced he is a gift from God. The same storm that wrecks a ship appears to reveal a long-buried secret. Across the sea, Sophia sends her husband David into the desert in search of that secret, guided by signs she believes are divine. Told with the shimmer of Arabian Nights and the wonder of Sinbad's voyages, The Sailor's Secret is a tale of omens, shipwrecks, and the stories that carry us home.
About the Author
Younis Al Akhzami is an author from Oman. His work has been featured in various local, regional, and international literary forums. He served as the Head of the Short Story Writers in Oman from 2006 to 2007 and is one of the founders of the Society of Writers in Oman. He holds a Master's degree in Information Systems Management (USA, 1994) and a PhD in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (UK, 2000). His publications include Alnatheer (1992), Habs Alnawras (1996), Humma Ayar (1999), Nuqoosh (2007), Al Sawt (2012), Bar Alhekman (2016), Kahf Adam (2017), Ghabta Hashish (2018), Bedoon (2019), and Ras Madrakah (2022). He has also served as a judge for numerous literary contests, evaluating both short stories and novel manuscripts. Mbarek Sryfi, poet, translator, and scholar. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, CELAAN Review, Metamorphoses, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Studies, Translation Review, World Literature Today, and ArabLit. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film (2009), translated & co-translated, The Monarch of the Square (2014), The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling (2014), The Elusive Fox (2016), The Blueness of the Evening (2018), The Handsome Jew (2022), and Alone by the Nile (2023). Sryfi published a chapbook, The Trace of a Smile (2018), which shared first place, and two collections of poetry, City Poems-A Selection of poems (2020), Chasing a Moving Landscape (2022)
Book Information
ISBN 9781788711067
Author Younis AlAkhzami
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Dar Arab
Publisher Dar Arab
