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. |
Table of Contents:
- 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.