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Stoning the Devil by Powell, Garry Craig is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Stoning the Devil is a linked collection of stories set in the United Arab Emirates, a country of paradoxes, of seediness and glamour, of desert grandeur and Disneyland vulgarity, where public executions and other barbaric customs are winked at by the western expats who run the economy. Colin, a professor of literature, is not the typical expat, ignorant and interested only in pleasure and his stock portfolio, but a speaker of Arabic and an admirer of Arab culture or is he? To his Arab wife, he is an Orientalist who exoticizes and patronises the locals, unaware of his latent racism. Powell presents a complex and contradictory set of Arab characters, who are a far cry from fundamentalist stereotypes. He also gives women in the Gulf a voice as none are completely submissive. Garry Craig Powell delivers a powerful story cycle and perhaps the first work of literary fiction set in the Persian Gulf by a westerner since Hilary Mantels Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. It echoes all the concerns of the great Arab writers, Mahfouz, Munif, and Kanafani regarding the post-colonial world. Written by an author that spent a good deal of time in that part of the world, the Gulf is presented as a c

Who reads Stoning the Devil?

Author

Powell, Garry Craig

Publisher

Cheltenham, Glos

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781908011541

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14