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322 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Summary |
Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation. With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honour killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself. The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate - an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal and redemption. |
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Teachers -- Iraq -- Kurdistān -- Fiction.
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Kurdistān (Iraq) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Novels.
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| ISBN |
0692758100 (paperback) |
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9780692758106 (paperback) : $16.95 |
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