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A young woman growingup in rural Iraq finds her simple provincial life irrevocably altered by her family's relocation to Baghdad, her study of Western music and ballet at the behest of her English mother, the angst of teenage discovery, the bitter realities of the war between Iran and Iraq, her father's death and mother's illness, and her first love affair. 12,500 first printing.
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A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished. --"The New York Times
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A memorable book about growing up between two cultures. Alan Cheuse, "All Things Considered
" [V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful. "Booklist"
"[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child heroine grows up." --"LA Times""
"A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The New York Times
"A memorable book about growing up between two cultures." --Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "[V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful." --Booklist "[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child heroine grows up." --LA Times
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A memorable book about growing up between two cultures. Alan Cheuse, "All Things Considered
" [V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful. "Booklist"
"[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child heroine grows up." --"LA Times""
"A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The New York Times
"A memorable book about growing up between two cultures." --Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered "[V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful." --Booklist "[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child heroine grows up." --LA Times
Betool Khedairi was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a Scottish mother. She received a B.A. in French literature from the University of Mustansirya and then traveled between Iraq, Jordan, and the United Kingdom, working in the food industry while writing A Sky So Close, which was published in Arabic in Lebanon in 1999. She currently lives in Amman, where she is working on her second novel.
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- PublisherPantheon Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0375420967
- ISBN 13 9780375420962
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages241
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