Absent: A Novel
by Khedairi, Betool
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812977424
- ISBN 13
- 9780812977424
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Synopsis
Dalal is a young woman living in a crowded Baghdad apartment with the childless aunt and uncle who raised her. In the same building, Umm Mazin, a fortune-teller, offers her customers cures for their physical and romantic ailments, Saad the hairdresser attends to a dwindling number of female customers, and Ilham, a nurse, escapes the stark realities of her hospital job in dreams of her long-lost French mother. Despite the damaging effects of bombings and international sanctions on their world, all the residents try to maintain normal lives.Hoping to bring in much-needed cash by selling honey, Dalal's uncle becomes a beekeeper, enlisting Dalal's help in the care of these temperamental creatures. Meanwhile, Dalal falls in love for the first time--against a background of surprise arrests, personal betrayals, and a crumbling social fabric that turns neighbors into informants.Tightly crafted and full of vivid, unforgettable characters, Absent is a haunting portrait of life under restrictions, the fragile emotional ties among family and friends, and the resilience of the human spirit.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- U06M-00145
- Title
- Absent: A Novel
- Author
- Khedairi, Betool
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812977424
- ISBN 13
- 9780812977424
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- This edition first published
- July 10, 2007
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