Zeyn Joukhadar
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each evening. As his grandmother's sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens to be his longtime crush)....
Author
Publisher
Editora Dublinense Ltda
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Mama uma vez disse que a cidade era um mapa de todas as pessoas que viveram e morreram nela, e Baba disse que todo mapa era, na verdade, uma história." Em meio a protestos, conflitos e bombardeios durante a guerra civil de 2011 na Síria, a jovem Nur é forçada a deixar o país em busca de segurança. Quase mil anos antes, Rawiya, aprendiz de cartografia, traça exatamente a mesma rota, numa saga épica por terras desconhecidas. As duas jornadas...
