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This follow-up to The Bamboo Stalk, winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, is an asynchronous work featuring narrator Katkout and his childhood companions Fahd and Sadiq. Having survived the 1990 Iraqi invasion of their country, Kuwait, the friends call themselves Fuada's Kids after a popular TV series and take to the radio to express their dissatisfaction with the growing tension between the Sunni and Shi'a sects. In Alsanousi's fictional future, the sectarian viole...Log In or Sign Up to Read More