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A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself. Najwa's father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mother's death, she cannot live alone in the Islamic society of Jordan. She must find her father. Her search takes her through new dangers as she becomes swept up with a mysterious organization which sends her into the mountains of Afghanistan. For her father, this same journey was made as a wrenching sacrifice for the sake of his beliefs. Yet his experience in the desert transformed his life forever. Now it transforms Najwa's, as she is compelled to follow in his footsteps: from a heartbreaking secret in Afghanistan all the way to a revelation in Britain. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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By sally tarbox on 14 March 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
Overall a rather weak and forgettable story, though with moments of accomplished writing. Najwa is a 27 year old living in Amman ; her mother has just died and her grandmother prompts her to go to look for her long-absent father as a single woman can't live alone.
And so with a few clues, Najwa goes off in search of the elusive Omar Rahman, to Pakistan and then further afield...
Narrated by Najwa, the story is intercut with excerpts from her father's diary, explaining how a dissatisfied young husband and father left his controlling wife and accompanied his friend to join the mujahadeen, where his medical skills were soon called upon...
I found this rather a forgettable read, Najwa was unconvincing and didn't behave like a 27 year old. Why exactly did her heroic doctor father get into darker deeds? And what about Najwa's own actions - as a largely non-religious person, brought up by a mother who rejected islam, what prompted her doings? I was also unpersuaded by the people she encounters in the last section of the book - would her lovely landlady, Elizabeth, really have been so ultra-helpful to a girl coming to visit her terrorist father?
Not recommended. ( )