The map of salt & stars
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab2018
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Nour is a young Syrian girl who has lost her father to cancer. Wanting to be close to her relatives, Nour's mother - a cartographer who makes beautiful hand-painted maps - moves her family back to the city of Homs. Nour's father was a real storyteller and he told her that the roots of the trees connect to the ground across the world. She knows they left her father in the ground back in America, so she starts telling him the ancient fable of Rawiya, whispering it into the ground so he might hear. It is this story that gives Nour the courage to keep going when she has to leave Homs after it is bombed and faces a long journey as a refugee in search of a new home.
Main title:
The map of salt & stars / Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar.
Author:
Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018.
Collation:
360 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781474606752 (hbk)9781474606783 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.6AF
Local class:
FTF
Language:
English
BRN:
2213856