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The Salmiya collection : stories of the life and times of modern Kuwait /

In this collection, the author celebrates the essence of everyday life in a little-known part of the world. These stories offer nuanced portraits - tragicomic, bittersweet, and candid - of ordinary Kuwaitis: expatriates and natives, students and professors, siblings, and lovers. In "Ancient Civ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loomis, Craig
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013
Edición:First edition.
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