In his exquisite novel "Sunset Oasis," which enjoyed great popular and critical acclaim, the renowned writer Bahaa Taher returns to the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the British occupation of Egypt. There, Egyptian police officer Mahmoud Abdel-Zaher, who lived a dissolute life among bars and prostitutes, is sent to the Siwa Oasis because the authorities suspect him of sympathizing with the revolutionary ideas of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Ahmed Orabi.

He takes his Irish wife, Catherine, who is passionate about antiquities and is searching for the tomb of Alexander the Great, to the oasis, and they immerse themselves in a new world of great richness and privacy, blending the past and present, the subjective and the objective and the historical, presenting an exciting experience of the relationship between East and West on the human and civilizational levels, including conflict and harmony, through a courageous confrontation of the self in a time when opportunism, betrayal, and desire were mixed with love and heroism.

The first novel to win the Arabic Booker Prize