Gamba

by Kamal Barghout

The boy came from a land where the sun was not always so bright and the nights were mostly dark. He liked to gaze at the huge, glowing moon that sometimes filled the sky with light at night. He was fearless and tough, unlike the other children in his village who were scared of the bogyman. He wrestled a wolf with his bare hands and stabbed it with his sharp knife. He was ten years old when the bogyman snatched him away and threw him on a ship that sailed north and then on a camel train to a town called Isfanada.

355 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2024

Reviews

[Isabella · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very interesting concept.
Found the story itself quite choppy, and felt like it jumped around alot without always resolving things. The writing style was also not my cup of tea, maybe felt like it was translated