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020 _a9780143416333
082 _a894.81263 BEN-G
100 _a Benyamin
245 _aGoat Days (Novel )
260 _aNew Delhi
_bPenguin Books
_c2012
300 _a 255 pages ; 20 cm
520 _aNajeeb\'s dream is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves it only to be propelled by a series of incidents into a slave -like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert.Benyamin\'s wry telling transforms this bitter comedy into a tale of loneliness and alientation.
650 _a Slaves -- Fiction. Human rights -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction. Human rights.
700 _a Translated from the Malayalam by Joseph Koyippally.
942 _cBK