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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ramadan Ramseydi Louis Edwards
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Raised by his grandma, Mama Joon, Ramadan inherits her worldly goods on her death. At age 12, living in New Orleans which he loves, he ends up fleeing his jealous aunt and her gangster sons. Heading to the middle east via Istanbul, he ends up in Aleppo, Syria searching for the father he never met. He makes tons of friends bonding with them over basketball and hip-hop. He is a resilient kid able to survive some challenging times. The book slowly picks up momentum once the background is established. Edwards can use his writing skills to paint a picture of hope in the future, despite sadness. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
African American Fiction.
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Historical Fiction.
HTML: The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension that it bedevils his destiny before he is even born. Spanning from the Deep South to the Middle East, Ramadan Ramsey bridges multiple countries and cultures, entwining two families who struggle to love and survive in the face of war, natural disasters, and their equally tumultuous, private mistakes and yearnings. Ramadan Ramsey begins in 1999 with the moving (and funny) teenage love story of Alicia Ramsey, a native New Orleans African American young woman, and Mustafa Totah, a Syrian immigrant who works in her neighborhood at his uncle's convenience store. Through a series of familial betrayals, Mustafa returns to Syria unaware that Alicia is carrying his child. When the baby is born, Alicia names their son Ramadan and raises him with the help of her mother, Mama Joon. But tragedy strikes when the epochal hurricane of 2005 barrels into New Orleans, shattering both the Ramsey and Totah families. Years later, when Ramadan turns twelve, he sets off to find Mustafa. It is an odyssey filled with breathtaking and brilliant adventures that takes Ramadan from the familiar world of NOLA to Istanbul, and finally Aleppo, Syria, where he hopes to unite with the father he has never known. Intimate yet epic, heartbreaking yet triumphant, Ramadan Ramsey explores the urgency of 21st century childhood and the richness and complexity of the modern family as a shared global experience. It is also a reminder of Louis Edwards' immense talent and fearless storytelling and is a welcome return of this literary light. . Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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