The Sufi Storyteller (Hardcover)
Faiqa Mansab
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Añadir al carritoHardcover. In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.There is a dead woman in the library.Layla is a scholar of women's histories and stories. Her life is a carefully constructed set of routines in her small American liberal arts college, but all of that is about to change.Mira is a renowned Sufi storyteller who is running from a terrible past. When she learns that the murdered woman in the library was carrying a note from the killer addressed to her, she is presented with an opportunity to break a cycle of trauma and hurt. To confront her past, she must disclose the truth to Layla.Together they enter the realm of Story, but can Layla find the forgiveness in her heart necessary to lead them to the answers they are looking for? In this contemporary murder mystery that takes readers from small town America to the mountains of Afghanistan, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other.
There is a dead woman in the library.
Layla is a scholar of women’s histories and stories. Her life is a carefully constructed set of routines in her small American liberal arts college, but all of that is about to change...
Mira is a renowned Sufi storyteller who is running from a terrible past. When she learns that the murdered woman in the library was carrying a note from the killer addressed to her, she is presented with an opportunity to break a cycle of trauma and hurt. To confront her past, she must disclose the truth to Layla.
Together they enter the realm of Story, but can Layla find the forgiveness in her heart necessary to lead them to the answers they are looking for?
Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. She holds an MPhil in English Literature, an MFA in Creative Writing with a high distinction from Kingston University in London, and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck University in London. She writers for numerous local and international publications.
Her debut novel, This House of Clay and Water, was published to much critical acclaim by Penguin India in 2017, and was longlisted for Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the German Consulate Peace Prize at the Karachi Literature Festival 2018. It has since been optioned for screen, translated into Turkish by Dedalus Press, and published in audio by Blackstone Publishing USA in 2022.
Faiqa lives in Lahore, Pakistan with her family.
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