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Al Jubail: The Last Pearl Diver
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781066744961
Publisher: Abbas Sadak
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.63 Width: 4.00 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
A haunting mystery wrapped in the final days of the Gulf pearl trade.
Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. When archivist Amina inherits seven notebooks wrapped in indigo cloth, she expects a cataloguing task. What she finds instead is a mystery sealed since 1935.
In the last great season of the Gulf pearl trade, a fleet of divers set out from the coast. A storm. An unmapped island. And a choice made by one man - Hamad al-Safi - that he never came home to explain.
Ninety years later, Amina begins to read. Through the parallel journals of a meticulous diver and his watchful wife, she pieces together a story of fraud, sacrifice, and a love so quiet it could only be heard in the archive. At its centre: a single extraordinary pearl, divided in two - and a son who grew up not knowing what his father had given for him.
AL JUBAIL: THE LAST PEARL DIVER is a novel about what we keep, what we hide, and what arrives - eventually - when the right person comes looking.
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