{"product_id":"hidden-light-of-objects","title":"Hidden Light of Objects","description":"A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country’s growing hostility towards the West. A self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.\n\nThe headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib’s luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410441195864,"sku":"9781849250856","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781849250856_2647024b-274a-4d29-83de-4a7fcdc66950.jpg?v=1777896060","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/hidden-light-of-objects","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}