In English
IPAF 2013 · Winner
The Bamboo Stalk
ساق البامبو · Saq al-Bambu
Saud Alsanousi · 31 when first published
Novel · 377 pages · Migration, Family
AI-generated summary:José, the son of a Kuwaiti father and a Filipina maid, is sent away as a baby and grows up poor in the Philippines, dreaming of the land his mother called paradise, until at eighteen he can go back to Kuwait.