The Libyad

by David Seals

In the classic tradition of Epic, 'The Libyad' is a modern adventure novel that follows the ancient heroic works like 'The Iliad' and 'The Aeneid', and 'Odyssey', to the North African shores of Libya, where gods confront modern men to discover the nature of immortality. And even as war is raging today against the current tyrant Muamma al-Qathafi, his people are fighting for their dignity as well in this stirring novel of 288 pages, by the author who knows the country well. He lived there for 3 years in the 1960s, in high school on the U.S. Air Force Wheelus Base at Tripoli; and he has written extensively since then about Libya and Qathafi in scholarly works, and been invited numerous times back to Libya by the Government for literary and political conferences. He is the author of many books and films, including the popular Native American novel and film 'Powwow Highway' (produced by George Harrison of The Beatles!), and its sequel 'Sweet Medicine' which the New York Times reviewer Edward Hower called "a comic masterpiece". 'The Libyad' is infused with the same joyous comedy as we go into the homes where the Libyan people live, where they laugh and make love, and explore the sacred mysteries of their vast Saharan lands on the magnificent shores of the Mediterranean Sea, where gods like Dionysos and Athena were also born and raised.

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 18, 2011