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Saud Alsanousi

Autore di The Bamboo Stalk

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Data di nascita
1981-05-27
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
Kuwait

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This is a book of many parts: an imagined near future where Kuwait has been torn apart by sectarian violence, flashbacks to the narrator Katkout's childhood in the 90s, all interspersed with excerpts from a novel that Katkout is on the verge of publishing.

Mama Hissa's Mice is one of those instances where I'm fully prepared to admit that it may not be the book, that it's me who is at fault here. I simply lack the familiarity with either Kuwaiti or Arab culture or history to understand a lot of necessary context, and this may be a novel that works better for those with more knowledge. But that cultural opacity, coupled with a large cast of characters that I struggled to tell apart, some weird treatment of the women characters (an awful lot of them seem to have Very Symbolic bouts of illness: blindness, cancer, miscarriages, timely deaths), and the lumpen pacing that resulted from the shifting back and forth between the novel and the novel-within-a-novel, meant that I bounced off this book pretty hard.… (altro)
 
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siriaeve | 1 altra recensione | Jun 26, 2022 |
I read about 20% of this book before deciding that life's too short to struggle with books I'm finding difficult. While I quite liked the story and characters, particularly Mama Hissa and her sense of humour, I don't know, or want to know, too much about the subject matter. If you manage to finish it, you're a braver wo/man than me.
 
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earthsinger | 1 altra recensione | Mar 16, 2021 |
"لو كنت مثل نبتة البامبو.. لا انتماء لها.. نقتطع جزءاً من ساقها.. نغرسه، بلا جذور، في أي أرض.. لا يلبث الساق طويلاً حتى تنبت له جذور جديدة.. تنمو من جديد.. في أرض جديدة.. بلا ماض.. بلا ذاكرة.. لا يلتفت إلى اختلاف الناس حول تسميته.. كاوايان في الفلبين.. خيزران في الكويت.. أو بامبو في أماكن أخرى"
كنت أظن أن تلك اللذة التي دفعتني لعدم لترك رواية العيب ليوسف إدريس قبل أن أنهيها في جلسة واحدة لن تتكرر مع أي كتاب آخر ؛ ولكن هاهي تكررت بشكل غير معقول وبلذة مضاعفة تجعلني أود إعادة البدء في قرائتها من جديد
… (altro)
 
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Mariam_AbdAllah | 6 altre recensioni | Feb 3, 2020 |
العطاء من دون حب لا قيمة له
الأخذ من دون امتنان لا طعم له

رواية رائعة حية المشاهد والأحاسيس
 
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Maaly_Ahmed | 6 altre recensioni | Aug 23, 2019 |

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ISBN
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