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«The Stories of the Sahara» welcome you into a wonderful world of the desert life of Sanmao — a cosmopolite, rebel, and traveler who dreamt of becoming the first female explorer to cross the world’s largest desert. A daring childhood dream took the grown-up graduate of Chinese and Spanish universities to the town of El Aaiún, capital of the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. There, Sanmao meets her friends and enemies, plunges into a tart mixture of exotic cultures, and opens her heart to a real love. Much like diary entries, her stories bring together the experiences of love and loss, freedom and peril, all lived and told with a voice as energetic and witty or as meditative and tender as it is timeless — and this sincerity garnered them the readers’ love across continents.
Since its publication in 1976, more than 15 million copies of «The Stories of the Sahara» have been sold.
A collection of stories by Sanmao, an iconic Taiwanese writer, about her life in the colonial Sahara in the mid-1970s
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