
The Hidden Light of Objects
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 05/06/2025,
Pagination: 256 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Saqi Books,
Published By: Saqi Books,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 198 x 131 x 23
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781849250856
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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