224 pages
English language
Published Dec. 26, 2011 by Dial Press.
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Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their family, a situation that is complicated by Nuri's father's disappearance.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Missing persons
- Fathers and sons
- Stepmothers
- Family secrets
Places
- Cairo (Egypt)