Description
This Kuwaiti novel exposes the reality of life for the country's migrant construction workers * Migrant workers come to Kuwait to change their lives for the better but found only a murderous sun, injustice & poverty * The novel is based on the author's own experiences * The Kuwaiti author questions the horrendous treatment meted out to migrant construction workers in his country Keywords: migrant;construction;burning sun;dreams;wealth;big money;sandstorms;residence permit;work visa;sub-contractor;teaching Arabic
About the Author
Taleb Alrefai is a well-known Kuwaiti novelist and short-story-writer, born in 1958, who started publishing short stories in local newspapers when he was an engineering student at the University of Kuwait in the mid-1970s. Shadow of the Sun (2000 and 2012, Dhil al-Shams), centring on the suffering of Egyptian and other foreign workers in Kuwait, is his first novel. In 2002, he was awarded the State Prize for Letters for his novel Ra'ihat al-Bahr (Scent of the Sea). In 2011 he founded Al-Multaqa (Cultural Circle), a regular literary discussion forum in Kuwait City, which led to the founding of the annual Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story in 2016. That year his novel Fi al-Huna (Here and There) was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and now has a French edition. His novel Al-Najdi (2017, The Mariner) has editions in English (Banipal Books, 2020, and Spiracle audiobook 2022), French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Turkish. He lives in Kuwait City and works as a creative writing lecturer at the American University of Kuwait.
Book Information
ISBN 9781913043360
Author Taleb Alrefai
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Banipal Books
Publisher Banipal Books
Weight(grams) 176g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm