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The Cry of the Dove

โœ Scribed by Fadia Faqir

Book ID
100090476
Publisher
Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Year
2011;2008
Tongue
English
Weight
173 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802170404

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โœฆ Synopsis

Left pregnant after an illicit love affair, Saalma, a young Bedouin woman from Hima in the Levant, flees her people to escape the honor killing waiting for her at the hands of her tribe and seeks asylum in England.

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Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the story of one young woman and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a culture whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our world today. Salma has committed a crime punishable by death in her Bedouin tribe of Hima, Levant: she h