The year of the fat cats

In 1937, just before the discovery of oil in Kuwait, the world erupted and nothing remained the same when a man of Indian nationality who owned a grilled food restaurant in the Kuwait market was accused of selling cat meat; an crisis erupted, and the British commissioner intervened. This is some of what history tells us, to come the story and weave the tale of "Musaad," that ambitious young man who works as an accountant in the office of a wealthy family involved in maritime trade, when fate unexpectedly opened the door for him from an unexpected place. It is a story about ambition, the guided and the chosen human, and the connection to a heritage carried on the shoulders since birth, and about a land infused with politics... a novel about the "Year of the Fat Cats." Abdulwahab Al-Hammadi; a Kuwaiti novelist born in 1979. His novel "Wala Ghalib" received the Kuwait State Encouragement Award in 2021, and his novel "Do Not Tell Your Dream" made the longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction "Booker" in 2015. He also has a travel literature book titled "Andalusian Paths" published in 2011. Additionally, he published a book called "Voices Building Memory" in 2023, a study in the archive of victims of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. He also publishes articles in Kuwaiti and Arab newspapers.