The Salmiya collection : stories of the life and times of modern Kuwait / Craig Loomis.
In this collection, the author celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world. These stories offer nuanced portraits - tragicomic, bittersweet, and candid - of ordinary Kuwaitis: expatriates and natives, students and professors, siblings, and lovers. In "Ancient Civ...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2013
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Uniform Title: | Short stories. |
| Summary: | In this collection, the author celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world. These stories offer nuanced portraits - tragicomic, bittersweet, and candid - of ordinary Kuwaitis: expatriates and natives, students and professors, siblings, and lovers. In "Ancient Civilization 101," a young man suspects his girlfriend Mariam is unfaithful and, in a fury, shears her long hair. The confidence and boldness in Mariam that first attracted him is now seen as a threat. In "The Conference on Rights and Freedom," two young students invited to present their paper at an academic conference in the United States share with their professor their dramatic plan to "show them who we are." Each of the forty stories in the collection reverberates with the others, illuminating a world the reader will not soon forget. The author renders a Kuwaiti society that is complex and distinct, and yet the characters and situations unveil a time and a place that is universal |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780815652106 0815652100 |