Verlag: Grove Atlantic Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0802160662 ISBN 13: 9780802160669
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - 'A spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan. The latest novel by 'versatile prose stylist' (New York Times) Leila Aboulela is an enchanting story of the years leading up to the British conquest of Sudan in 1898, and a deeply human look at the tensions between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who-against the odds and for a brief time-gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice. When Akuany and her brother Bol are orphaned in a village raid in South Sudan, they're taken in by a young merchant Yaseen who promises to care for them, a vow that tethers him to Akuany through their adulthood. As a revolutionary leader rises to power-the self-proclaimed Mahdi, prophesied redeemer of Islam-Sudan begins to slip from the grasp of Ottoman rule, and everyone must choose a side. A scholar of the Qur'an, Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, even as his choice splinters his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through her young adulthood and across the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with Yaseen as her inconsistent lifeline. Everything each of them is striving for-love, freedom, safety-is all on the line in the fight for Sudan. Through the voices of seven men and women whose fates grow inextricably linked, Aboulela's latest novel illuminates the fraught and bloody history of a people caught in the crosshairs of imperialism. River Spirit is a powerful tale of corruption, coming of age, and unshakeable devotion-to a cause, to one's faith, and to the people who become family'.
ISBN 10: 0863569048 ISBN 13: 9780863569043
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Paperback. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: GROVE PR, 2023
ISBN 10: 0802160662 ISBN 13: 9780802160669
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: NEW. Über den AutorrnrnLeila Aboulela is the first-ever winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Nominated three times for the Orange Prize (now the Women s Prize for Fiction), she is the author of numerous novels, including T.
Verlag: Saqi Books Mär 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 0863569048 ISBN 13: 9780863569043
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - This spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author Leila Aboulela tells the unforgettable story of an embattled young woman's coming of age during the revolutionary war in nineteenth-century Sudan.
Verlag: Saqi Books, 2024
ISBN 10: 0863569048 ISBN 13: 9780863569043
Anbieter: Monster Bookshop, Fleckney, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Saqi Books, 2023
ISBN 10: 086356917X ISBN 13: 9780863569173
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Verlag: Read Books Mär 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 0802162754 ISBN 13: 9780802162755
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman's coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan.
Verlag: Saqi Books Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 086356917X ISBN 13: 9780863569173
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: NEW. Neuware - The setting is 1890s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned in a village raid, theyre taken in by a young merchant, Yaseen, who promises to care for them a vow that tethers him to Akuany into their adult years. As revolution starts to brew, led by the self-proclaimed Mahdi, Sudan begins to prise itself from Ottoman rule and everyone must choose a side. Yaseen feels beholden to stand against this false Mahdi, a decision that threatens to splinter his family. Meanwhile, Akuany moves through the country alone, sold and traded from house to house, with only Yaseen as her intermittent lifeline. Their struggle mirrors the increasingly bloody struggle for Sudan itself, for freedom, safety and the possibility of love.
Verlag: Saqi, 2023
ISBN 10: 086356917X ISBN 13: 9780863569173
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: NEW. River Spirit is the unforgettable storyof a people who, against the odds and for a brief time, gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge and sacrifice.The setting is 1890s Sudan. When Akuany and her brother are orphaned i.