Fruit for the Crows
Ahmed Zein
Fruit for the Crows tells the story of Nura’s lover Giap (named after the Vietnamese leader) and the lives of those he knows. Their interlocking stories reveal comrades’ struggle for power in the Socialist regime of Aden, Yemen, in the 1970s and 1980s. The novel shows how old tribal allegiances won over slogans of comradeship and the common good. These slogans drew left-wing Arabs to this Yemeni city, to exile and broken dreams.
Publisher
Al-Mutawassit
Nomination
2021 Longlist
Ahmed Zein
Country of origin Yemen
About the author
Ahmed Zein is a Yemeni novelist and journalist, born in Al-Hudaydah, Yemen, in 1966. He lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he works as a cultural journalist. He has published two short story collections and four novels: Correction (2004), American Coffee (2007), War Under the Skin (2010) and Steamer Point (2015). Two of his novels have been reprinted for the Arabic Literature series published by the General Egyptian Book Organisation. Extracts from his novels and some of his short stories have been translated into English, French and Russian.