The Bamboo Stalk

A haunting tale of roots stretched across borders searching for belonging.

When José, the son of a Filipino maid and a wealthy Kuwaiti, returns to Kuwait after years in the Philippines, he finds himself caught in the painful space between acceptance and rejection. Neither fully embraced by his father’s family nor wholly at home in his mother’s world, José’s journey lays bare the struggles of identity, class, race, and belonging in the Gulf.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, The Bamboo Stalk is both a deeply personal story of self-discovery and a piercing critique of societal prejudice. Through José’s voice, Alsanousi captures the ache of exile, the complexity of cultural roots, and the universal human longing to be seen as whole.

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