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‘Unnikrishnan refuses to occupy a single style or register, as if to inoculate the reader against settling on any one idea of what the U.A.E. is, or of what it means… [It] works wonders, jolting the readerly brain away from abstraction and directing it toward the fine grain of life. Unnikrishnan isn't papering over the frequent harshness of noncitizen life, or denying how degrading it can be. But he is insisting that there is more to the story — that the people in the place have rich interior lives shot through with memories, desires, and confusions.'— Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct and serve the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force is not given the option of citizenship. Some ride their luck to good fortune. Others suffer different fates. Until now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called'guest workers'of the Gulf has barely been addressed in fiction. With his stunning, mind-altering debut novel Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan delves into their histories, myths, struggles, and triumphs. Combining th

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Author

Deepak Unnikrishnan

Publisher

University of New South Wales Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760800109

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14