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The Wrong End of the Telescope

Brožovaná bez přebalu matná
EAN:9781472156105

Připravovaná novinka. Expedujeme do dvou pracovních dnů po vydání.

Dostupnost: NOVINKA připravovaná
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Anotace
By National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiyarefuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing this humanitarian crisis.
Informace o sortimentu
Druh sortimentu Kniha
Autor Rabih Alameddine
Značka Little, Brown Book Group
Rok vydání 2021
Pořadí vydání 1. vydání
Vazba Brožovaná bez přebalu matná
Počet stran 320
ISBN 1472156102
EAN 9781472156105
Interní kód 0357288
Produktový manažer Jana Knopová (jana.knopova@knihcentrum.cz)
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