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- 319 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
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Winner of three international awards. Book club favorite. This provocative and heart-warming novel, based on a true story, follows an American teacher whose values are challenged in an Iraqi village in 2010. "Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation." With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself. The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate - an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal and redemption.
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The Kurdish Bike, Alesa Lightbourne
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- Rok vydania
- 2016
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- Titul
- The Kurdish Bike
- Podtitul
- A Novel
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Vydavateľ
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Rok vydania
- 2016
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 319
- ISBN10
- 0692758100
- ISBN13
- 9780692758106
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, Historické romány, Ženy, Súčasná literatúra, Autobiografie & Pamäti, Cestovanie, Učitelia, učiteľky, Kurdovia
- Hodnotenie
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotácia
- Winner of three international awards. Book club favorite. This provocative and heart-warming novel, based on a true story, follows an American teacher whose values are challenged in an Iraqi village in 2010. "Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation." With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honor killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself. The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate - an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal and redemption.