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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was...
2) Sea prayer
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey ... the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
382 pages : 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"La decision de una humilde familia campesina de dar una hija en adopcion a un matrimonio adinerado es el fundamento sobre el que Khaled Hosseini autor de las inolvidables Cometas en el cielo y Mil soles esplendidos ha tejido este formidable tapiz en el que se entrelazan los destinos de varias generaciones y se exploran las infinitas formas en que el amor, el valor, la traicion y el sacrificio desempenan un papel determinante en las vidas de las personas."...
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