The Mariner

by Otaalib Rifaaai

Taleb Alrefai salutes Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in this fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired sea captain looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work of pearl-divers, and how he became a captain at 14. As he recalls his voyages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913043088
• ISBN13: 9781913043087
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Banipal Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages