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In Lands Overseas is the first volume of Alessandro Spina's epic, The Confines of the Shadow, a sequence of novels and short stories that map the transformation of Libya, particularly the coastal city of Benghazi, under the pressure of Italian colonization.
This volume is divided into three sections-The Young Maronite, The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturnal Visitor-which are set between 1912 and 1927. At its outset we find Italian soldiers solidifying...
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The modern classic about the colonization of Libya continues, as Italy watches its prized colony slip away.
The Confines of the Shadow maps the transformation of the Libyan city of Benghazi from a sleepy Ottoman backwater in the 1910s to the second capital of an oil-rich kingdom in the 1960s. The short stories that comprise this second volume are set in the period between the late 1920s, when Italy began solidifying its power in its new Libyan colony,...
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