I cannot believe I am still reading this book! (Nearly a month later). It churns and churns, repeating itself endlessly, maybe adding a little more detail with each telling. And the torture, I hate reading about torture; maybe I have my head in the sand but it distresses me that people can be so cru...
This was an unusual, but rewarding, reading experience for me. Cities of Salt, published by a Saudi Arabian/Jordanian author in 1984, is a very foreign novel to an American reader. It is set in an unnamed country – presumably Saudi Arabia; the Gulf port of Harran, the book's primary setting, is prob...
Sometimes a book length allegory can become oppressive or repetitive or simply boring. Not this one. Children of the Alley is a book about faith and belief. Each section presents as an allegorical story that relates to a major religious figure in Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. The character be...
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