Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell (Paperback, 2012)

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Publisher: Skylight Press ISBN 13: 9781908011541. Title: Stoning the Devil Item Condition: New. Author: Powell, Garry Craig ISBN 10: 1908011548. Used-Very Good: The book will be clean without any major stains or markings, the spine will be in excellent shape with only minor creasing, no pages will be missing and the cover is likely to be very clean.

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Stoning the Devil is a novel set in the United Arab Emirates, a country of paradoxes, of seediness and glamour, of desert grandeur and Disneyland vulgarity, where public executions and other barbaric customs are winked at by the western expats who run the economy. Colin, a professor of literature, is not the 'typical' expat, ignorant and interested only in pleasure and his stock portfolio, but a speaker of Arabic and an admirer of Arab culture - or is he? To his Arab wife, he is an Orientalist who exoticizes and patronises the locals, unaware of his latent racism. Powell presents a complex and contradictory set of Arab characters, who are a far cry from fundamentalist stereotypes. He also gives women in the Gulf a voice -as none are completely submissive. Garry Craig Powell delivers a powerful novel-in-stories and perhaps the first work of literary fiction set in the Persian Gulf by a westerner since Hilary Mantel's Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. It echoes all the concerns of the great Arab writers, Mahfouz, Munif, and Kanafani regarding the post-colonial world. Written by an author that spent a good deal of time in that part of the world, the Gulf is presented as a crucible in which people of different races and religions are forging a new humanity, in spite of the abysses between them.

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PublisherSky Light Press
ISBN-139781908011541
eBay Product ID (ePID)115945272

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Book TitleStoning the Devil
AuthorGarry Craig Powell
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2012
Number of Pages150 Pages

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Item Height216mm
Item Width140mm
Item Weight199g

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Title_AuthorGarry Craig Powell
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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