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A Sky So Close : A Novel
A Sky So Close A Novel
Author: Betool Khedairi, Betool Khedairi
This haunting coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in wartime Iraq was the subject of heated controversy when it was published in the Middle East; now in English, it offers American readers a rare chance to experience an Iraqi childhood. — The frank, determined narrator is a schoolgirl living in a small town in the Iraqi countryside when t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375420962
ISBN-10: 0375420967
Publication Date: 7/3/2001
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Pantheon
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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A young girl comes of age while aching for a sense of belonging. Daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother, the unnamed narrator struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi countryside where she's raised and at the Western school of music and ballet that her mother insists she attend.


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