The story of the bamboo stalk
Author's name: Saud Al-Sanousi
Pages: 396
Book size: 21×14
The question of identity is what Saud Al-Sanousi, the Kuwaiti writer and novelist, raises in his wonderful narrative work, “The Bamboo Stalk.” He does this by observing the life of a young man born to a Kuwaiti father, belonging to an ancient family, and from a Filipino mother. In it, the feeling of belonging to two different cultures, and the inability to identify with one and leave the other. He has his mother since he was a child... In the novel, Josephine comes to work in Kuwait as a "maid" leaving her studies and her family, her father, her sister who had just become a mother at the time, her brother, his wife and their three children, and they pin their hopes on Josephine, to guarantee them a decent life, after that narrowed their ways. And there, in the house of the family that has just started its work in its suburbs, Josephine gets acquainted with "Rashid", the only spoiled son of the mother "Ghanima" and the father "Issa". Ships do not desire, so Josephine bears her son "Jose", whose name becomes "Jose Mendora" later, then the father abandons the son who has not reached his second month of age, and sends him to his mother's country, and in the Philippines, the child suffers poverty and the difficulty of life, and he wishes himself to return To his father's country, when he is eighteen, and from here the novel begins. "The Bamboo Stalk", a bold fictional work, objectively approaches the phenomenon of foreign labor in Arab countries, and the relationships that result from this phenomenon. Double fun, the fun of the story and the speech at the same time. Accordingly, "Bamboo Stalk" is a time for reading and life in the beautiful text.
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