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OverviewFor fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore. A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived - adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people - and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mai Al-NakibPublisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Imprint: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.211kg ISBN: 9789927101168ISBN 10: 9927101163 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 23 April 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsThe old world and the new. The strife in The Gulf, once peaceful and reflective. East and West, Arabic and English, the poetry of the heart, the eye of the hawk; all these elements produce the lustrous pearls of Mai Al-Nakib's short stories. --Hanan al-Shaykh Lyrical and personal. --Kate Lord Brown A subtle flair for perfection. Al-Nakib should be heralded as an exciting new literary voice. -- The National Author InformationMai Al-Nakib was born in Kuwait in 1970. She holds a PhD in English literature from Brown University in the USA and teaches postcolonial studies and comparative literature at Kuwait University. The Hidden Light of Objects is her first collection of short stories. She lives in Kuwait, and is currently writing her first novel. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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