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Title The map of salt and stars : a novel / Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar.
Publisher New York : Touchstone, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Description 360 pages : illustrations, color map on endpapers ; 24 cm
Edition First Touchstone hardcover edition.


LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 EL-Adult Collection  FIC JOUKHADAR Nearby on shelf  30628000812372 12-27-23  AVAILABLE
Note "A novel"--Cover.
Contents Syria. The earth and the fig -- Like two hands -- The lion's request -- Through the iron gate -- Feathers over the sun -- Where the camel sleeps -- Bone island -- There also is my heart -- Jordan/Egypt. Hidden heavens -- Stories you tell yourself -- The season of salt -- Sea of blood -- The weight of stones -- Libya. Sea of swords and teeth -- The green deep -- Blood and water -- The ribbon of good-bye -- Algeria/Morocco. Bare earth -- Two things at the same time -- Underneath -- Ceuta. Homecoming -- The last empty space.
Summary This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what -- The Map of Salt and Stars follows the journeys of Nour and Rawiya as they travel along identical paths across the region eight hundred years apart, braving the unknown beside their companions as they are pulled by the promise of reaching home at last.
Other edition Online version: Joukhadar, Jennifer Zeynab, author. Map of salt and stars First Touchstone hardcover edition. New York : Touchstone, [2018] 9781501169106
Subject Refugee children -- Syria -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Syria -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Genre Fiction.
ISBN 9781501169038
1501169033
9781501169052
150116905X