Fifteen rials, no haggling
In his story, the vendor at the souq set aside a Grundig Satellit 2100 from the seventies for him, the same radio model his father had in the van. Faiz paid for it without haggling, something he never does. He took it apart, found the blown capacitor — the part that had caused the static he used to hear as a kid — and replaced it. He tuned it to Radio Oman AM: it sounded just like it had fifteen years earlier.







