Temporary people
By: Deepak Unnikrishnan
Edition: First Restless Books paperback edition.
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781632061423
Subjects: Foreign workers; Fiction
Description: "Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing... The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review