Our next book is a novel by Kuwaiti novelist and journalist Saud Alsanousi.

The Bamboo Stalk tells the story of José/Isa, son of a Filpina woman and a Kuwaiti man. Josephine, José’s mother, goes to Kuwait to work, she works for a rich family and is shown sympathy only by the son, Rashid, who talks to her, marries her and impregnates her.

The Bamboo Stalk takes a deep look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

The location:

Millennium Hotel is very well known located in 4th Ring Road, Salmiya Abou Thar Al Ghafari, Hawally, (you can see the building from high way Road 30). the meeting will be in the Library Café ground floor.

For more information, please feel free to contact my number: 98942003.

Enjoy your reading.