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The Confines of the Shadow is a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. Employing a cosmopolitan array of characters, ranging from Ottoman functionaries, to Sanussi aristocrats and Italian officers, Spina chronicles Italys colonial experience from the euphoria of conquest giving us a front row seat to the rise and subsequent fall of Fascism in the aftermath of World War II to the countrys independence in the 1950s. Spina continues his narrative with the discovery of Libyas vast oil and gas reserves, which triggered the tumultuous changes that led to Muammar Gaddafis forty-two year dictatorship. Distinguishing themselves by their intimate understanding of East and West, the novels that comprise The Confines of the Shadow are among the most significant achievements of 20th century fiction and stand unchallenged as the only multi-generational epic about the European experience in North Africa. This is the first installment of a three-volume translation, and it includes The Young Maronite, The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturna

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Author

Alessandro Spina

Publisher

Darf Publishers Ltd

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781850772781

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.58 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14