My Name Is Salma - Softcover

Faqir, Fadia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552776912 ISBN 13: 9780552776912

Publisher: Black Swan, 2010

Synopsis

When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, her innocent days playing the pipe for her goats are gone for ever. She is swept into prison for her own protection. To the sound of her screams, her newborn baby daughter is snatched away. In the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she learns good manners from her landlady, and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. When she can bear them no longer, she goes back to her village to find her. It is a journey that will change everything - and nothing. Slipping back and forth between the olive groves of the Levant and the rain-slicked pavements of Exeter, My Name is Salma is a searing portrayal of a woman's courage in the face of insurmountable odds.

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From the Back Cover

Exquisitely woven, laced with humour and social awareness Leila Aboulela, author of The Minaret When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, she is swept into prison for her own protection and her new-born baby is snatched away. As an asylum-seeker in the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she rebuilds her life and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. She decides to go back to her village to find her.It is a journey that will change everything and nothing. A beautiful book, written in vivid, tender prose, about creating a new world when you have lost everything that matters. Salma is unforgettable Maggie Gee [My Name is Salma] vividly expresses the horror of lives oppressed by archaic patriarchal honour codes Financial Times

About the Author

Fadia Faqir is a Jordanian/British writer and defender of human rights, especially women's rights in the Arab world. She is the author of two other novels, Nisanit and Pillars of Salt. In 1990 the University of East Anglia awarded her the first Ph.D in Critical and Creative Writing. Brought up in Amman she now lives with her husband in Durham. For more information please visit www.fadiafaqir.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Swan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0552776912
• ISBN 13: 9780552776912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336