Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Revolution
    Unavailable
    Revolution
    Unavailable
    Revolution
    Ebook480 pages7 hours

    Revolution

    By Piet Hein Wokke

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Escape to the Middle East in this thrilling tale about Khalid, Abdullah and Jalal – young men who try to shape the kingdom of Beledar.

    While the nearest battlefields of WWII are hundreds of miles of away, on the streets of Mayasin, the capital of Beledar, Abdullah struggles to survive. In a remote village, Khalid sets out in search of his father, and must face the brutal laws of the desert.

    Jalal, the young king, wants to break through nepotism and corruption, but in a conservative, Islamic country, change doesn’t come easy. That the western world preys on his country’s oil fields, doesn’t make his life any easier either.

    In this exciting book, Wokke expertly and poignantly shows the roots of modern conflicts in the Middle East, through the people and ideas that inhabit it.

    REVIEW Dutchy Book Reviews (5 stars)
    “One of best books I read in a long time... Even when the book is set in a fictitious country called Beledar situated between Jordan and Iraq, the novel sheds light on many real things regarding the region while telling a captivating story in the meantime ... A brilliant book that had me and my Muslim colleague discussing it.”

    REVIEW Reader in a Reverie (4.5 stars)
    [Revolution] is filled with discussions on politics, religion and war, but it is fuelled by the social, human interactions that these two characters experience. The discussions are intelligent but not confusing, and the story is just as much about the people, as it is about these themes.

    Both main characters had incredibly interesting stories, and were written in a way that made me want to be reading about one whilst reading about the other, in both characters’ cases. I only wish I could have read this book whilst studying Middle Eastern history last year – it completely brings the place, the society, the corruption, and the religious politics to life, especially in the beginning of the novel. I felt like I was walking the streets with Abdullah, and within the army with Khalid. Wokke creates a very vivid world, and a very real one.

    I found the character of the new King to be the most interesting though. The insight into the way the political structure worked was gripping to read. Reading about his British education, and the way it, and his Western Queen, influence his thinking in terms of both religion and politics, was very interesting.

    Overall, this was a very thought-provoking and well-written book. The examination of the lives of the individuals in this country was engaging and drove the story throughout. The characters are very well fleshed out, and the world is painted very clearly in the reader’s mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPiet Hein Wokke
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9789082619003
    Unavailable
    Revolution

    Related to Revolution

    Related ebooks

    Children's Historical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Bless You Father

      Jul 7, 2022

      Bless You Father
      10 min read

    • Article

      Bless You Father

      Jul 7, 2022

      Bless You Father
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Courage To Be Happy

      Feb 1, 2023

      MARRIAGE and columns have this in common: you tend to repeat yourself. More than once in these pages, I have quoted the New Yorker’s legendary film critic Pauline Kael. After President Nixon’s landslide victory in 1972 she wrote: ‘I live in a rather

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Picture Of Dear Raymond

      Aug 24, 2022

      One of the great joys of Raymond Briggs’s column in The Oldie was that we got two geniuses for the price of one. As well as receiving his charming sideways look at life in the column, we got one of his peerless drawings every month. A compilation was

      3 min read

    • Article

      Falling In Love

      Feb 17, 2020

      Falling In Love
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘There Is Nothing Wrong With Offending People’: Roddy Doyle On Getting The Band Back Together

      Sep 9, 2022

      There is a speech in Roddy Doyle’s 1987 novel, The Commitments, I’ve long wanted to ask him about. “The Irish are the N-words of Europe, lads,” the band’s manager, Jimmy Rabbitte, tells his charges. He’s trying to explain to them what a bunch of past

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Clues To ROMANCE

      May 4, 2021

      The Clues To ROMANCE
      6 min read

    • Article

      Historical Friction

      Jul 21, 2021

      Historical Friction
      13 min read

    • Article

      Great Dane

      Oct 23, 2022

      Great Dane
      7 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 19, 2021

      At a local newspaper in South East London in 1957, journalist Jean Swinney receives a curious letter written to the editor. Gretchen Tilbury – abeautiful, well-to-do woman – claims her 10-year-old daughter is the product of a virgin birth. Gretchen h

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Rewards Of Loyalty

      Jun 23, 2021

      The Rewards Of Loyalty
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Punk Philatelist

      Jan 13, 2023

      The Punk Philatelist
      6 min read

    • Article

      Top Tips From A Party Animal

      May 4, 2022

      I recently interviewed the brilliant and esteemed novelist Margaret Drabble. I was struck and somewhat surprised when she told me that she panics before parties. Social situations make her nervous. You wouldn’t have thought she had any reason to feel

      3 min read

    • Article

      Ever The Diplomat

      Dec 19, 2021

      David Shearer may be a masochist. When you consider his career choices, you do have to wonder. He was a short-lived leader of the then-beleaguered Labour Party before resigning and being replaced by a similarly short-lived leader, David Cunliffe. He

      7 min read

    • Article

      Ben Okri

      Apr 25, 2022

      Ben Okri
      5 min read

    • Article

      Green Ticket To Ride

      Feb 19, 2024

      Green Ticket To Ride
      8 min read

    Reviews for Revolution

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words