Cities of Salt

Author(s): Abdelrahman Munif, Peter Theroux

Location(s): Saudi Arabia

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1930s

When oil is discovered in a poor 1930s Arab village, the religious, historical, and cultural confrontations that occur between the natives and the American colonizers threaten to destroy a way of life

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