Private Tommy Trang is the best marine imaginable; he’s smart, daring, physically fit, and patriotic to the core. California surfer Cody “Cowboy” Carmichael acts as his co-conspirator and Boswell during the Gulf War as the two AWOL marines sneak...
A unique portrait of Kuwaiti women, “Women in Kuwait” discusses a wide range of issues: the impact of the oil era; the growth of the state; the emergence of women’s organizations in a male-dominated society; the recent Islamic revival;...
For fans of Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore. 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....
Set in Kuwait during the ominous years between the two Gulf wars, Small Kingdoms traces the intersecting lives of five people rich and poor, native and foreigner, Muslim, Christian, and non-believer when they discover that a teenaged Indian housemaid...
Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian-Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family’s...
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