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Where They Shattered His Green Dreams

Where They Shattered His Green Dreams

Where They Shattered His Green Dreams

Alexander Raju

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Strategic Book Group, LLC
Año de edición:
2016
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Ficción histórica
ISBN:
9781681816258
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Where They Shattered His Green Dreams is a novel based on media reports following NATO’s war against Libya. The account begins when Colonel Gaddafi’s tragic assassination is announced, and ends with the narrator of the story, a professor of journalism at Al Fateh University in Tripoli, being murdered.The first chapter describes an evening in Tripoli on February 11, 2011, the Eve of Prophet Mohammed’s birthday, and the last chapter details the cold-blooded assassination of Colonel Gaddafi, Libya’s ruler for forty-two years, on October 20, 2011.Major characters include Fatima, a beautiful Libyan girl in traditional black dress who always speaks against the dictator’s rule, and an old Sufi saint, who predicts the destruction of Libya by NATO forces before he is killed by mercenaries at the end of the book.Unknown facts are revealed for the first time through the pages of this political novel.Alexander Raju, an Indian English poet, novelist, and short story writer, has many books to his credit. Ripples and Pebbles (1989), Sprouts of Indignation (2003), and Magic Chasm (2007) are collections of his poems. His first novel The Haunted Man came out in 1996, and its second edition in 2009. Upon This Bank and Shoal (2008) and When Babel Tower is Falling Down (2012) are novels published by CCB Publishing, British Columbia, Canada. Poles Apart on the Same Bed (2011) is a collection of his twenty-nine short stories. His latest novel And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on her Dulcimer (2014) is based on history and legends of Ethiopia. The Voice of Ethiopia (2008) is an edited work, and The Psycho-Social Interface in British Fiction (2000) is a critical work. He is currently an English professor in Ethiopia.Publisher’s website:  http://sbprabooks.com/AlexanderRaju

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