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The Bamboo Stalk

Saud Alsanousi

2012

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The son of a Filipina maid and a Kuwaiti father searches for belonging between two homelands.

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The Bamboo Stalk won Saud Alsanousi the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, 2013) and put Gulf identity and migrant workers' plight on the page as never before.

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