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The end of sleep / Rowan Somerville.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
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ISBN	9781408413333 (hbk.)
ISBN	9781408413340 (pbk.)
Name	Somerville, Rowan
Title	The end of sleep / Rowan Somerville.
Published	[Bath] : Windsor/Paragon, 2009
Description	283 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Notes	Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008.
Summary	Fin, an Irish journalist with little more than aw rumpled linen suit to his name, wakes to a Cairo dawn with a fierce hangover and an excruciating bruise on his thigh. As the first prayer call of the day sounds over the ancient city, Fin stumbles into an exotic adventure that will take him to the very edge of his courage, endurance and his sense of self. He seeks a story - a story about treasure - and to find it, he must first find his friend Farouk, the mercurial teller of tales, who alone knows what Fin needs to hear. Fuelled by whisky and a thousand glasses of tea, Fin pursues his quest under the shadow of the Great Pyramid, through crowded kebab shops and into the great emptiness of the desert itself. Set against the background of a magnificently crumbling city, "The end of sleep" is an incantatory tale about a man desperately seeking meaning. It is also a riotous love letter to Arab culture, its rich history, humour, food and friendship and, above all, to the transformative power of storytelling.
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