Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1849250855
ISBN-13
9781849250856
Edition
New
Publisher
Saqi Books
Imprint
Saqi Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2025
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
228 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.10 x 2.30 cms
Ksh 1,800.00
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In this collection, Mai Al-Nakib captures the lives of ordinary people in the Middle East, from a girl whose name reflects political tensions to a cancer-stricken man reflecting on his past. Through poignant stories, she explores love, marriage, and memory, revealing the quiet struggles behind the headlines of war and unrest.
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 self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.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.
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