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The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman

The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman

Ahmed, Zia
Saud, Hamoud
Alharthi, Jokha

Paperback

Series: Middle East Literature in Translation

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 081561201X
ISBN13: 9780815612018
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.02
Language: English

In this lyrical collection, author Hamoud Saud invites readers into the soul of Oman, a country famed for its long coastline, rugged mountains, and stark desert landscapes. This geography provides the backdrop for stories that reveal both the beauty and hardship of a country and people on the margins. Focused on the capital city, Saud's Muscat is not a postcard-perfect city but a living, breathing place of cement forests, forgotten roundabouts, and ravens perched on flagpoles.

Each story is fabulist in spirit but grounded in the textures of everyday life: the scent of karak tea, the chatter of schoolgirls, the heat rising from asphalt. In The Raven of Ruwi, a narrator wanders the city's commercial district where Indian music drifts from balconies and the streets are filled with weary bank workers. In The Sad Donkey of Muscat, a blind man recounts the city's history as told to him by a donkey. And in Post Office of the Dead, a forgotten postmaster receives letters from Dostoevsky and Kafka, triggering a surreal unraveling of time and self. At once intimate and expansive, The Raven of Ruwi and Other Stories from Oman is a powerful meditation on place, identity, and the stories that cities tell

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