Minaret

by Aboulela, Leila

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Title Statements

Full title :Minaret / Leila Aboulela.

Summary

"With her Muslim hijab, with her down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich Arab families whose houses she cleans in London. Twenty years earlier, Najwa, then an aristocratic Westernized Sudanese, could have never imagined this new life. She was a student at the University of Khartoum, but her focus in life was on fashionable clothes, pop music, and parties. When a political coup forces Najwa's family into exile in London, she soon finds herself orphaned and completely alone. For the first time in her life, Najwa turns to the solace and companionship among the women at the mosque, and when she adopts the hijab, she begins to see the world anew. Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer, and they find a common bond in her newfound faith and slowly, silently, begin to fall in love."--Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Grove Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:276 pages ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0802170145, 9780802170149
oclc:ocm59360162
LC Classification:PR6051.B68
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Subjects

Book group discussion kits England -- London Fiction Great Britain London (England) -- Fiction Love -- Fiction Love stories Muslim women Muslim women -- Fiction Musulmanes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Orphans Orphans -- Fiction Political refugees Political refugees -- Fiction Political refugees -- Fiction. -- Engla… Rich people Rich people -- Fiction Riches -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Romance fiction Romance genre