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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
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2016
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- The Kurdish Bike
- Sottotitolo
- A Novel
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Editore
- Alesa Lightbourne
- Pubblicato
- 2016
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 319
- ISBN10
- 0692758100
- ISBN13
- 9780692758106
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Storie vere, Biografie, Prosa storica, Donne, Narrativa contemporanea, Autobiografie e memorie, Viaggi, Insegnante,professori, Curdi
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.