Sweetness in the Belly
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Camilla Gibb
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Comedy
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780143038726
- ISBN-10
- 0143038729
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Sweetness in the Belly
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ISBN: 0143038729
Author: Gibb, Camilla
Condition: New
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota FanningLike Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibbs widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Quran to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly cant escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.
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