Shukri Mabkhout | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

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"In his work “Baganda,” the Tunisian writer Shukri Mabkhout is still preoccupied with the same questions and issues he has already revealed to readers in his well-known novel “The Italian” which won the prestigious Arab Booker Award in 2015. These questions and issues relate to a generation that was involved in politics, and aspired toward real change and to a homeland of human values, based on justice and far from tyranny and religious extremism.



In the novel “Baganda,” Mabkhout uses the investigative journalism form, which requires readers to pay close attention to everything related to the details of the plot. From the beginning, he manages to get us into the worlds of the mysterious plot, and together with the narrator we experience his confusion and urge to explore the reasons behind the sudden disappearance of “Baganda” – the icon of the popular football world, or the Tunisian Pele"