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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 27 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Adriana Sevahn Nichols. |
| Summary |
Just when her family should be arranging her marriage, Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden, is sent from her home in Iraq's idyllic countryside to the unfamiliar city of Basra, where she must survive on her paltry earnings as a servant. Her only asset-her exquisite beauty-brings more peril than peace. Worse, her mother appears to be keeping a secret about her own mysterious past, one that could threaten Kathmiya's destiny forever. In this lost Iraq of the 1940s, a time of rich traditions and converging worlds, Kathmiya meets Shafiq, a Jewish boy whose brotherhood with his Muslim neighbor Omar proves that religion is no barrier to friendship. But in a world where loss of honor is punishable by death, the closeness that grows between Kathmiya and Shafiq becomes dangerous as a doomed love takes root. When British warplanes begin bombing Iraq and the country's long-simmering tensions explode, the power of an unbreakable boyhood bond and a transcendent love must overcome the deepening fractures of a collapsing society. Set during the tumultuous years surrounding the Second World War, Sweet Dates in Basra is the redemptive story of two very different cultures, and a powerful reminder that no walls can confine the human spirit. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Boys -- Iraq -- Fiction.
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Muslim children -- Fiction.
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Jewish children -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Iraq -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Sevahn Nichols, Adriana. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780061988660 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0061988669 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11586604 |
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