✍ Jeffrey Quyle
📂 Fiction
📅 2019
🏛 Ingenairii Press, LLP
🌐 English
⚖ 170 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
Disquiet
✍ Scribed by Brendan Freely; Zülfü Livaneli
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1635420326
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people.
"Mercy is not an ointment for cruelty."
Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border. Passionate about helping others, Hussein begins visiting a refugee camp to tend to the poor and sick streaming into Turkey by the thousands, fleeing ISIS. There, he falls in love with Meleknaz--whom his disapproving family will call "the devil" who seduced him--and their relationship sets further tragedy in motion.
A nuanced meditation on the nature of being human and an empathetic, probing look at the past and present reality of these lands of the Mesopotamian heritage, Disquiet gives a voice to the...
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