"Capitalism and religious fundamentalism collide in Girod’s shimmering account of one man’s heresy and imminent execution."―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Mansour al-Jaza�ri is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh! Gassouh! It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour’s Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour’s great-grandfather, the Emir Abdelkader; that of Algerian independence; and that of another Mansour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, a Sufi mystic executed in 922. In this lyrical and ambitious novel, Ryad Girod looks at the post-Arab Spring world as its drive toward modernity threatens to sever its relationship with the ethos of Sufi thought and mysticism.

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Ryad Girod was born in 1970 in Algiers, where he teaches mathematics in the Lyc�e International d’Alger. He has also spent time as a teacher in Riyad and Paris, and has lived in Saudi Arabia, as well as Algeria, France, and Syria. Girod is a part of what the French press have labeled the October Generation, along with fellow writers such as Adl�ne Meddi, Samir Toumi and others who came of age around the time of the October Riots in 1988. This is his first book to appear in English.

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