The Night Will Have Its Say A Novel - Ibrahim al-Koni

International Booker Prize Finalist And One Of The Arab Worlds Most Innovative Novelists (roger Allen) Delivers A Brilliant Retelling Of The Muslim Wars Of Conquest In North Africathe Year Is 693 And A Tense Exchange, Mediated By An Interpreter, Takes Place Between Berber Warrior Queen Al-kahina And An Emissary From The Umayyad General Hassan Ibn Numan. Her Predecessor Had Been Captured And Killed By The Umayyad Forces Some Years Earlier, But She Will Go On To Defeat Them.the Night Will Have Its Say Is A Retelling Of The Muslim Wars Of Conquest In North Africa During The Seventh Century Ce, Narrated From The Perspective Of The Conquered Peoples. Written In Ibrahim Al-konis Unique And Enchanting Voice, His Lyrical And Deeply Poetic Prose Speaks To Themes That Are Intensely Timely.