Een roman over het leven van een Indiase arbeidsmigrante als dienstbode in het huis van een rijke Koeweitse dame
Dit is een kopie van een artikel op mijn boekenblog wat ik denk dat ook interessant is voor u gezien het migratie thema. As you might know I sometimes review novels for the Netgalley site. I did one earlier this week and trying to figure out what was the writer's background discovered another novel she wrote. The one I had to review was certainly not a favourite but this one I bought really was. I am an immigration lawyer by trade and have read reports about the labour migration from India, Pakistan and other Asian countries to the Gulf. Sometimes you read reports about the vulnerable situation female house personnel is in.. According to Amazon Pamela Q. Fernandes was born and raised in Kuwait. She's seen first hand the country's laws and landscape shift after fleeing the First Gulf War with her family and returning to the country in 1996. This novel "Painting Kuwait Violet" is s et a few years after the First Gulf War in Kuwait. The novel is about...