The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story. Hanan Al-Shaykh by Hanan Shaykh

The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story. Hanan Al-Shaykh

Hanan Shaykh

302 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry and film are her passion – and a beautiful...

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