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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Heinemann
Publication date
October 30, 2001
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780435912079
ISBN-10
0435912070
Dimensions
0.50 by 5 by 7.50 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$18.69
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow working as a translator in a British university. Rae is a Scottish lecturer in Postcolonial Politics. As Sammar slowly recovers from emotional collapse after her husband's death she finds her friendship with the enlightened and sensitive older man turning to love. But she cannot turn her back on her home, her culture or her faith.
Editions
Paperback
1 edition from Pgw (September 30, 2006)
9780802170262 | details & prices | 203 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $12.00
About: When Sammar, a Sudanese widow living alone in Aberdeen and working as an Arabic translator at a Scottish university, takes a job with Rae, a Scottish Islamic scholar, she finds herself falling in love, despite his lack in faith in all she holds sacred, in the first North American edition of the first novel by the acclaimed author of Minaret.
About: When Sammar, a Sudanese widow living alone in Aberdeen and working as an Arabic translator at a Scottish university, takes a job with Rae, a Scottish Islamic scholar, she finds herself falling in love, despite his lack in faith in all she holds sacred, in the first North American edition of the first novel by the acclaimed author of Minaret.
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from Heinemann (October 30, 2001)
9780435912079 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $18.69
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow working as a translator in a British university.
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow working as a translator in a British university.
from Polygon (May 1, 2001)
9780748662579 | details & prices | 184 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband.
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband.
from Polygon (May 1, 2001)
9780748662579 | details & prices | 184 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $13.95
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband.
About: Sammar is a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband.
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