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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| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, New York :
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2013
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |
| Uniform Title: | Short stories. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The Reprimand -- The Ballad of Reedah -- The Untimely Death of Number 431 -- The Older Brother -- Once Upon a Time and Not So Far Away -- Pay Day -- The Reluctant Terrorist -- The Recruit -- The Night Watchmen -- Inshallah -- The Bank Teller's Tale -- The Ballad of the Retired Hangman -- Rumors of Midgets -- Math 212 -- East of Jahra -- Ancient Civilizations 101 -- After the Music Lesson, Times Three -- Wednesday's Lunch -- Just Right -- The Border Guard's Philosophy -- The Ballad of Fat Ali -- The Sweet Cart Papers -- Another Country's Waitress -- The Jungles of Basra -- At Poolside -- The People of Nepal, or Maybe Tibet -- The Doughnut Shop -- The Lives of Poor People -- 13 February 2007 -- Backyard Readings -- The Late Breakfast -- The Excellent Teacher -- The Emergency Room Doctor at Play -- Somewhere on the Gulf Road -- The Soor Street Insurance Company -- The Censor -- La Vida Loca -- The Brothers -- The Holy Roman Empire on a Sunday Morning -- Mr. Shehab Is Coming -- The Driver -- The Maid -- The Gardener -- The Conference on Rights and Freedom -- Following My Green Shirt -- The Stalled Water Truck and Other Impatience. | |
| 520 | |a 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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