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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Huntley, Paula
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585422932
- ISBN 13
- 9781585422937
- Seller
-
Springdale, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
TarcherPerigee, 2/2/2004 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.7874 in x 8.3071 in x 5.6299 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .
Synopsis
A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this broken country, and she reluctantly agreed to accompany him. Deeply uncertain as to how she might be of any service in a country that had seen such violence and hatred, Huntley found a position teaching English as a Second Language to a group of Kosovo Albanians in Prishtina.A war story, a teacher's story, but most of all a story of hope, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal Hunt-ley kept in scattered notebooks or on her laptop over the eight months that she lived and worked in Kosovo. When Huntley asked her students if they would like to form an American-style "book club," they jumped at the idea. After stumbling upon a stray English-language copy of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Huntley proposed it as the club's first selection. The simple fable touched all the students deeply, and the club rapidly became a forum in which they could discuss both the terrors of their past and their dreams for the future.The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is a compelling tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Once Upon a Time Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000719391
- Title
- The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
- Author
- Huntley, Paula
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1585422932
- ISBN 13
- 9781585422937
- Publisher
- TarcherPerigee
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, California, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2/2/2004 12:00:01 AM
- Size
- 0.7874 in x 8.3071 in x 5.6299 i
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.5997 lb
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