
From one of the most highly regarded writers of Arabic literature, Trench is the second volume in the epic quintet Cities of Salt . Tracing the economic history of the Arabic world, Munif picks up where Vol. I left off, with the effects of the discovery of oil reserves in the...

Volume two in the Cities of Salt trilogy, The Trench is a powerfully satiric and deeply affecting novel. It is the first Arabian work of fiction to depict the royal government of an oil sheikdom very much like that of Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. Banned in many Middle Eastern countries,...