Mauritania

The Desert and the Drum
by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

Mbarek Ould Beyrouk is a journalist, a government advisor and a champion of free speech. This incredibly compassionate and tragic tale of a young girl forced to leave a small, traditional community threatened by modernisation is the first English translation of a Mauritanian work of fiction.

Translated by Rachael McGill
Dedalus Ltd, 2018
First published in 2015
ISBN 9781910213797