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9780008341077 (electronic bk) |
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Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue and courage. Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children – four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda's insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man.... |
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Electronic reproduction. Glasgow : HQ, 2019. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 768 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) |
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ameerika
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ilukirjandus (vormimärksõna)
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romaanid (vormimärksõna)
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e-raamatud (vormimärksõna)
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| Lisasõnad |
Fiction. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic books. |
| Täiendpealkiri |
OverDrive e-books
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| Teine kandja |
Original 9780008341060 |
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