Another Year in Oman
Author | : Matthew Heines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2007-10-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 0990879313 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780990879312 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: What do you do when you are a lone American in a small Arabian town and your country is getting ready to invade Iraq, just a few hundred miles away? Probably not this. As the true story continues in the sequel to My Year in Oman, the author, a university teacher in a small beautiful town on the coast of the Sultanate of Oman, finds himself completely devoid of the paradise he enjoyed the previous year. The author takes the reader along as he experiences the bitterly dark and amusing moments of the trials of loneliness and isolation once he realizes that he has no hope of returning to the life he once had. With much internal and mostly darkly amusing dialogue, the author explores the inner human psyche with his typical humor during the build up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the same time the author is exploring his own psyche, he continues to explore the vast Sultanate of Oman. He travels from Oman to Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the far reaches of Oman looking for a real, meaningful relationship somewhere in the Arabian Desert. While looking for a real, meaningful relationship, somewhere in the Arabian Desert, the author keeps realizing that his real interests lay closer to his small college town back on the coast. Readers will be amazed while they learn about Arab Culture and customs as well as the complexities of Arab relationships and the customs of Muslim societies. Another Year in Oman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place is a true story that combines romance, danger, exotic locations and a bizarre college in the middle of the desert to teach the reader about the complexities and realities of true Muslim and Arabian Culture and how it was permanently affected during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.