
"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo
Alexis Okeowo
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Books for Mauritania (MR).

"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo

An epic story of a Bedouin family's survival and legacy amid their changing world in the unforgiving Sahara Desert.

The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania.