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- 319 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
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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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2016
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- Título
- The Kurdish Bike
- Subtítulo
- A Novel
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Editorial
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Publicado en
- 2016
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 319
- ISBN10
- 0692758100
- ISBN13
- 9780692758106
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Historias reales, Biografías, Novelas históricas, Mujeres, Ficción contemporánea, Autobiografías y memorias, Viajes, Maestros, Kurdos
- Calificación
- 3,95 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.