Saud Alsanousi
Autore di The Bamboo Stalk
Sull'Autore
Opere di Saud Alsanousi
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1981-05-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Kuwait
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 152
- Popolarità
- #137,198
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 13
- Lingue
- 2
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)