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092    |fF|aBLAUNER 
100 1  Blauner, Peter,|eauthor. 
245 10 Picture in the sand /|cPeter Blauner. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bMinotaur Books,|c2023. 
300    340 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    ""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I
       fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is
       such a book." -Stephen King Peter Blauner's epic Picture 
       in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told 
       through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson,
       passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s 
       Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 
       world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League 
       university, his middle-class Egyptian-American family is 
       filled with pride and excitement. But that joy turns to 
       shock when they discover that he's run off to the Middle 
       East to join a holy war instead. When he refuses to 
       communicate with everyone else, his loving grandfather Ali
       emails him one last plea. If Alex will stay in touch, his 
       grandfather will share with Alex - and only Alex - a 
       manuscript containing the secret story of his own life 
       that he's kept hidden from his family, until now. It's the
       tale of his romantic and heartbreaking past rooted in 
       Hollywood and the post-revolutionary Egypt of the 1950s, 
       when young Ali was a movie fanatic who attained a dream 
       job working for the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille on
       the set of his epic film, The Ten Commandments. But Ali's 
       vision of a golden future as an American movie mogul gets 
       upended when he is unwittingly caught up in a web of 
       politics, espionage, and real-life events that change the 
       course of history. It's a narrative he's told no one for 
       more than a half-century. But now he's forced to unearth 
       the past to save a young man who's about to make the same 
       tragic mistakes he made so long ago"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Motion pictures|xProduction and direction|zEgypt|vFiction.
650  0 Terrorism|vFiction. 
651  0 Egypt|xHistory|y1952-1970|vFiction. 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft 
655  7 Thrillers (Fiction)|2lcgft 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft