Books set in Yemen

The Hostage

Zayd Mutee Dammaj

Yemen in the 1940s, under the rule of the Imamate. A boy from a highland tribe is held as a hostage for his family's loyalty and made a page-servant in the governor's fortress. The map runs from the mountain city of Taiz below Jabal Sabir north across the highlands to the imamic capital at Sana'a, roughly 250 kilometres away.

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