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Read this to learn about Bahrain as part of a reading challenge. The book is set around the prayers of Islam as a narrative structure, bringing together five separate people at five separate times of day into an incident that brings them all together. The characters include only one Bahrainian; the rest are a businessman, and guest workers from India, the Phillipines, and Tamil. If the author was trying to give a sense of the lives of guest workers, we do get a sense of what it is like to work i
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