Often faced with agonisingly difficult legacies and situations, her characters don't just want but need explanations.' * Times Literary Supplement * `Immediately engaging.as gruelling vignettes of gender injustice jostle with hallucinatory dream sequences.' * Observer * `Kintu is a triumph of east African literature and one that delights in the pliant nature of storytelling itself, the ways in which family lore is passed down and the impact of variations on it. Makumbi succeeds in making us feel the emotional importance of uncovering family history. It is also a very good one.inventive in scope, masterful in execution, does for Ugandan literature what Chinua Achebe did for Nigerian writing.' * Guardian * `A highly ambitious, dense and tightly written narrative. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, The Bamboo Stalk is a “ celebrated novel in the Arabic-speaking world.” In 2016, it was adapted into TV series but was banned in Kuwait due to its provocative theme.'It seethes with energy and teems with memorable characters.' * Sunday Times Best Books of the Year * `Kintu is an important book.
Caught between two worlds, Jose grapples with his identity. A few years later, however, he is summoned to Kuwait. Rashid has to send Josephine and the child, now 2 months old, back to the Philippines. At the time, Josephine already bears their child, which angers Rashid’s mother.
But while Josephine is from a poor family, Rashid is from an affluent clan and his family is not in favor of the couple’s marriage. There he meets Rashid, and they secretly get married. Josephine flies for Kuwait to work as a maid. It was first published in Arabic in 2013 and translated into English in 2015. The Bamboo Stalk, which is a bestseller in Kuwait, touches on this global issue. Many poor Filipina women go to the Middle East, among other places, to work as domestic workers, often finding themselves in abusive workplaces.
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