Title |
The wrong end of the telescope
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Names |
Alameddine, Rabih.
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Book Number |
DB111142
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Books
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them." -- Provided by publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Narrator |
Issaq, Lameece.
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Local Subject |
General Fiction - GFI
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Foreign Setting - FS
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Historical Fiction - HIF
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Historical Fiction - 21st Century - HIW
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Exclusion - Male Narrator - MN
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Exclusion - Short Book - SH
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LC Subject |
Arab American women - Greece - Fiction
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Non-governmental organizations - Greece - Fiction
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Physicians - Greece - Fiction
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Refugees - Greece - Fiction
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Refugees - Syria - Fiction
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Women physicians - Fiction
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Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) - Fiction
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Syria - History - Civil War, 2011 - Refugees - Fiction
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Fiction
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Female friendship - Greece - Fiction
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Interpersonal relations - Greece - Fiction
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Medical fiction
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Political fiction
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War fiction
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Call Number |
813.54 AFI
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Language |
English
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Original Publication |
Reissue of: 2022 2022 9781799793168
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