*Above Us the Milky Way*is a story about war, immigration, and the remarkable human capacity to create beauty out of horror. As a young family attempts to reconstruct their lives in a new and peaceful country, they are daily drawn back to the first land through remembrance and longing, by news of th
Above Us the Milky Way
β Scribed by Fowzia Karimi
- Book ID
- 111159036
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 9 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781646050031
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β¦ Synopsis
Debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything & everyone beloved & familiar. Old family photographs & lush watercolor paintings based on medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories/stories of the war dead, & fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration & immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love & wonder amidst destruction & loss, & how to create beauty out of horror.
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