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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.

The Hidden Light of Objects

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      Publisher: Saqi Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 6/5/2025
      ISBN13: 9781849250856, 978-1849250856
      ISBN10: 1849250855

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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