A Sky So Close: Betool Khedairi >
Author Khedairi, Betool
Publisher Anchor Books
ISBN 0385720785
Binding PB
List Price £9.99
Discount Price £8.99 (£1.00 off!)
Categories Fiction, Middle East
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"A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The
New York Times
In this elegant, incisive debut, a young girl comes of age while aching
for a sense of belonging. Daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother,
the unnamed narrator struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi
countryside where she's raised and at the Western school of music and ballet
that her mother insists she attend. Though she finds some semblance of solace
in dance, her trials increase when her family moves to Baghdad. Then comes the
outbreak of war, which compels her to move with her mother to England, where
her most pointed heartaches await. Gently poetic but emotionally unflinching,
'A Sky So Close' is a daringly fresh look into the clash between East and West
and into the soul of a woman formed by two cultures yet fully accepted by
neither.
"A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The
New York Times
"A memorable book about growing up between two cultures." -Alan Cheuse,
All Things Considered
"[V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful." -Booklist
"[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most
remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child
heroine grows up." --LA Times
Betool Khedairi was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a
Scottish mother. She received a B.A. in French literature from the University
of Mustansirya and then traveled between Iraq, Jordan, and the United Kingdom,
working in the food industry while writing 'A Sky So Close', which was
published in Arabic in Lebanon in 1999. She currently lives in Amman, where she
is working on her second novel.
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