In a Riyadh bus station, Turad, a bitter older man, resolves to leave the city he has come to loathe. Born into a Bedouin family, Turad left his desert home as a young man to work in the city-as a tea-boy, car-washer, security guard, and office messenger-after a traumatic event that led to him losing his left ear. By chance, he happens upon a green folder left behind by another traveler, containing official reports about an abandoned baby born outside wedlock and found in a cardboard box, and documents about his subsequent years in an orphanage and a foster home.
- ISBN10 9774160495
- ISBN13 9789774160493
- Publish Date 1 March 2007
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country EG
- Imprint The American University in Cairo Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English