Salmiya Collection e-bog

In The Salmiya Collection, Loomis celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world. With lucid prose and keen detail, these stories offer nuanced portraits-tragicomic, bittersweet, and candid-of ordinary Kuwaitis: expatriates and natives, students and professors, siblings, and lovers. In "e;Ancient Civilization 101,"e; a young man suspects his girlfriend Mariam is unfaithful and, in a fury, shears her long hair. The confidence and boldness in Mariam that first attracted him is now seen as a threat. In "e;The Conference on Rights and Freedom,"e; two young students invited to present their paper at an academic conference in the United States share with their professor their dramatic plan to "e;show them who we are."e; Each of the forty stories in the collection reverberates with the others, illuminating a world the reader will not soon forget. Loomis renders a Kuwaiti society that is complex and distinct, and yet the characters and situations unveil a time and a place that is universal.