The Salmiya Collection: Stories of the Life and Times of Modern Kuwait - Softcover

Loomis, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815610149 ISBN 13: 9780815610144

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2013

Synopsis

<p>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 "Ancient Civilization 101," 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 "The Conference on Rights and Freedom," two young students invited to present their paper at an academic conference in the United States share with their professor their dramatic plan to "show them who we are." </p><p>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.</p>

About this title

About the Author

Craig Loomis is associate professor of English and head of the Division of Humanities and Arts at the American University of Kuwait. He is the author of A Softer Violence: Tales of Orient (Minerva Press, 1995), and his short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, Louisville Review, and the Prague Revue.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815610149
• ISBN 13: 9780815610144
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212