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The Deaf-mute Boy
Geraci, Joseph
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The Deaf-Mute Boy--equal parts travel story, love story, and a resonant confrontation with the Muslim world--is the tale of a gay American professor immersed in a North African society. Maurice Burke, an archaeologist, is invited to speak at a conference in the bustling port town of Sousse, Tunisia. At first disillusioned by its rampant tourism and squalid commercialism, Maurice becomes intrigued by his surroundings after meeting a local deaf-mute boy. While exploring a vibrant souk, Maurice encounters a religious leader who guides him on a fateful introduction to the boy's family. As Maurice's involvement with the deaf-mute boy intensifies, he finds himself drawn into a maze of Tunisian politics, culture, and religion.

BOOK REVIEWS
"I was powerfully moved and haunted by The Deaf-Mute Boy. Joseph Geraci's deft and emotionally nuanced seduction of the reader--even as our protagonist is enchanted by Tunisia--struck me as truly remarkable."--Tim Miller, author of 1001 Beds

"Once Tunisia was the land of Gide and de Montherlant--eroticized, romantic, 'oriental'--but that was then and this is now. Overrun by tourists and fundamentalists--post-colonial, melancholic and inexplicable, threatened and threatening--it is still seductive. The Deaf-Mute Boy is a devastatingly accurate portrayal of the reality behind the modern tourism facade."--Peter Lamborn Wilson

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0299218945
Dewey Decimal: 813/.6
Library of Congress: 2006008063
Book Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 189

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