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The Kurdish bike, a novel, by Alesa Lightbourne

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The Kurdish bike, a novel, by Alesa Lightbourne

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The Kurdish bike

Oclc number

961922688

Responsibility statement

by Alesa Lightbourne

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Courageous teachers wanted to rebuild war-torn nation. With her marriage over and life gone flat, Theresa Turner responds to an online ad, and lands at a school in Kurdish Iraq. Befriended by a widow in a nearby village, Theresa is embroiled in the joys and agonies of traditional Kurds, especially the women who survived Saddam's genocide only to be crippled by age-old restrictions, brutality and honour killings. Theresa's greatest challenge will be balancing respect for cultural values while trying to introduce more enlightened attitudes toward women - at the same time seeking new spiritual dimensions within herself. The Kurdish Bike is gripping, tender, wry and compassionate - an eye-opener into little-known customs in one of the world's most explosive regions - a novel of love, betrayal and redemption

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