Hidden Light of Objects

Name: Hidden Light of Objects
Brand: Saqi Books
SKU: 9781849250856
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781849250856

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by Mai Al-Nakib

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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

Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general Short stories

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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