The Golden Scales: A Makana Mystery

Author: Parker Bilal

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Price : 29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781408824894
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Publication date : 31 December 2011
Dimensions : 234mm X 153mm X 30mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : 01 March 2012
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Dewey classification : 823.92
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The launch of a major new detective series set in modern-day Cairo - moving between its labyrinthine back streets, and its shining towerblocks - and featuring Makana, an exiled Sudanese private investigator, escaping his own troubled past.

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Published on the anniversary of the revolution in Egypt, The Golden Scales is an elegantly written, thrilling story set in a city of upheaval, chaos, and corruption. Parker Bilal is the pen-name of Jamal Mahjoub, whose literary novels have been critically acclaimed and who regularly appears at festivals, gives lectures on North Africa, and is an active blogger. This book-a-year series will reflect the changing political situation in Egypt, whilst delivering Chandleresque plots and page-turning intrigue.

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Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published seven critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. Born in London, he has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.