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Impoverished Egyptian teacher Helmy is deperate to find a better life for himself, his wife and little boy, seeing no future at home in Cairo. He dreams of working in oil-rich Kuwait and its boom in construction being the answer, just like many thousands before him. He manages to borrow the huge cost of a visa and is at last on his way to Kuwait City.
He has no idea of the nightmare, instead of the dream, that awaits him – the relentless summer sun with temperatures of 56ºC and more, the choking dust and sweat, having to do construction work instead of teaching. And always, no money, and no answers from the many managers Helmy comes up against. Instead of achieving his dream, he falls into trap after trap. The author is himself a character in the novel, an engineer with the construction company who is writing a story about the humiliating and degrading experiences of the migrant foreign workers arriving in Kuwait to make their fortunes.
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About the Author
Taleb Alrefai is a well-known Kuwaiti author. Shadow of the Sun (Dhil al-Shams), was his first novel, published in 2000, with a second edition in 2012. centred on the suffering of Egyptian and other foreign migrant workers in Kuwait. In 2002, he was awarded the State Prize for Letters for his novel Ra’ihat al-Bahr (Scent of the Sea). His novel Fi al-Huna (Here and There) was longlisted for the 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and has a French edition. His novel Al-Najdi (2017, The Mariner) based on the life of a famous Kuwaiti sea captain, has editions in English (Banipal Books, 2020, with an audio edition (Spiracle, 2022), French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Turkish.
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