Banipal 47 - Fiction from Kuwait Simon Carnell

Banipal 47 - Fiction from Kuwait Simon CarnellFor Summer reading Banipal 47 Fiction from Kuwait Fiction from Kuwait presents a selection of contemporary literature from the novels and short stories of 17 Kuwaiti authors. It spans the generations of literary voices, from the 1960s and the writings of Sulaiman al Shatti, Ismail Fahd Ismail and Suleiman al Khalifi, to works by Fatima Yousif al Ali, Laila al Othman, Waleed al Rajeeb, Taleb Alrefai, Thuraya al Baqsami and Fawziya Shuwaish al Salem,

"What I like about Mark Granier's work is his sense of the edgy play in words themselves

Ahmed Barakat: Three poems

and his travels since

is a sensitive recreation of the story of the orthopaedic surgeon Josep Trueta (Barcelona

This is a book you can dip in to – get hooked

was published as All This and 10%

pictorial language that is a transliteration of spoken English

Holly is dissatisfied with life

Philip Fried

Its emphasis on a world where decent people like Walter Castle feel that crime and violence is destroying the social body appears

courageous”

Alongside this personal recount