Rāwī, Shahd
Summary: "Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oneworld 2018
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Summary: Growing up in a rural countryside with her distant hippie-ish mother, Maya finds herself an outsider in the all-girl community of her new boarding school, where she encounters fellow outcast Roe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2003