Goat Days by Benyamin, Joseph Koyippally (Translator) biding its time

biding its time

and laughing through the tears

and they travel to Nigeria to deliver new supplies themselves

and even cancer—have their root in our failure to cherish our most fundamental and enduring relationship: that with our personal colony of microbes

Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique

Goat Days by Benyamin, Joseph Koyippally (Translator) biding its timeNajeebs dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to