Sweet Dates in Basra
New York : Avon, 2010.
Format: Book
Edition: First Avon paperback edition.
Description: 347 pages ; 21 cm
After two Iraqi families, one Jewish and one Muslim, break through a wall in the 1930s to accommodate a shared water pipe, a Jewish boy falls in love with an Arab girl, whose mother is determined to preserve her daughter's honor in a land where the loss of it can be punishable by death.
Subjects:
Marsh Arabs -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Iraq -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Boys -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Muslim children -- Fiction.
Jewish children -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Baṣrah (Iraq) -- Fiction.
Marsh Arabs -- Fiction.
Muslim women -- Iraq -- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Boys -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Muslim children -- Fiction.
Jewish children -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Baṣrah (Iraq) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780061689307
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Jiji | Edgewood | Fiction | In |