I dont know where to download it but here is the summary
The book is divided into four parts (Prison, Desert,
Escape and Refuge).
Najeeb Muhammad, the protagonist of the novel, a young
man from somewhere near Haripad, Kerala state,
is newly married and dreams of a better work in any of the Persian Gulf states.
However, at the King Khalid International Airport,
he gets trapped and is taken away by a rich Arab animal farm supervisor to his
farm. He is being used as a "slave" laborer and shepherd and is
assigned to look after goats, sheep and camels for almost three and half years
in the remote deserts of Saudi Arabia. He is forced to do backbreaking work, is
kept half-hungry and is denied water to wash and suffers unimaginably. The
farm's brutal supervisor keeps Najeeb in control with a gun and binoculars and
frequently beats him with a belt.
In a country where he does not know the language,
places or people, he is far away from any human interaction. Najeeb steadily
starts to identify himself with the goats. He considers himself as one of them.
His dreams, desires, avenges and hopes starts to become one with them. He talks
to them, eats with them, sleeps with them and virtually lives the life of a
goat. Still he keeps a ray of hope which will bring freedom and end to his
sufferings someday.
Finally one night with the help of Ibrahim Khadiri, a Somalian worker in the neighbouring farm, Najeeb
Muhammed and his friend Hakeem elopes from the horrible life to freedom. But,
the trio fumbles across the desert for days, and young Hakeem dies of thirst
and fatigue. Finally, Ibrahim Khadiri and Najeeb manage to find their way to Al-Bathaa,
Riyadh, where Najeeb gets himself arrested by the Regular Police in order to get deported to India.
Najeeb spends several
months in the Sumesi Prison before being put on a plane to India by the Saudi
Arabian authorities.
