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The Hostage

The Hostage

Author(s): Zayd Mutee' Dammaj

Location(s): Yemen

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): pre-revolutionary Yemen

Set in the pre-revolution Yemen of the Imams, this novel depicts the experiences of a young boy who, having been taken hostage, in line with the Imam’s general practice, as a pledge for his father’s political obedience, is sent to serve as a young male attendant in the palace of the city governor.
The growth of the boy’s awareness, political, social and personal, is movingly portrayed against a background of bygone times whose decadence and injustice are presented with vivid satiric force.

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