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Children of the ghetto. Star of the sea

Title	Children of the ghetto. Star of the sea
Names	Khūrī, Ilyās.
	Davies, Humphrey. Translator
Book Number	DB129370
Title Status	In Process
Medium	Digital Book
Annotation	"Adam Dannoun's story is one of beginnings. Born in a war-torn Israel, Adam dreams of becoming a writer. He is just an infant when Jewish forces uproot and massacre thousands of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba, including his own father. Adam's mother, crumbling with loss, takes her son to Haifa and remarries. Soon she feels stifled by her new husband. Adam flees this lifeless home and writes himself a second beginning. With nothing but his father's will and the image of his mother at the doorway, Adam is born again into the streets of Haifa."-- From publisher. -- Translated from the original Arabic edition. Strong language, some violence and some descriptions of sex.
Local Subject	Fiction
	Growing Up Stories - Fiction
Language	English
Released	2024

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