Sonia Nimr
Forfatter af Ghaddar the Ghoul and Other Palestinian Stories
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- Køn
- female
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature (Young Adult, 2014)
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- Værker
- 6
- Medlemmer
- 56
- Popularitet
- #291,557
- Vurdering
- 3.6
- Anmeldelser
- 4
- ISBN
- 9
- Sprog
- 2
I read this fun, enchanting adventure story (with a female heroine!) over the New Year; and nearly in one sitting. It's technically a book for older YA readers. Here is the publisher's synopsis:
"Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman."
"The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero—Qamar—is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Qamar’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. Qamar’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamar takes her favorite book, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands, and flees through Gaza, to Egypt, where she is captured, enslaved, and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping, she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it’s discovered she’s a girl, she must leave again, disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast-paced battles, mysteries, and adventures, Qamar never finds a home, but she does manage to create a family.'
It's from a small publisher "Interlink Books" in western Massachusetts who I became acquainted with back in the Belletrista era. Once or twice a year I browse their catalog and buy a book or two as a way of support. Interlink books is, I believe, is distributed by S&S.… (mere)