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The novel “The Bus”... between alienation and disappearance

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    The novel “The Bus”... between alienation and disappearance   Hoda Shawa       ■ Saleh Al-Ghazy ’ s bus transports its passengers and their dreams around the city, distributing stories and anecdotes about estrangement, nostalgia, and memories.   If it is correct to describe the novel as “the daughter of the city” in the complex human relationships of its inhabitants, which are shaped by the hierarchies of brutal, fast capitalism that crushes everyone who stands in its path, then “The Bus” by Saleh Al-Ghazy makes “the bus,” that means of transportation, a space. The mobile spatial monitor to monitor the circulation of Gulf capitalism in a Kuwaiti version.   The bus, in the narrative of the novel, is a means of transporting the workforce of the category residing in Kuwait to places of production. It is not surprising that the novel takes the heart of Kuwait City, which is vibrant with commercial and financial markets, as t...