Publicado por Pantheon Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. 241 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial wrappers. Translated by Muhayman Jamil. Review copy with material laid in. First edition. This haunting coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in wartime Iraq was the subject of heated controversy when it was published in the Middle East; now in English, it offers American readers a rare chance to experience an Iraqi childhood. The frank, determined narrator is a schoolgirl living in a small town in the Iraqi countryside when the book opens. Torn between the cultures of her parents, she loves the simple pleasures of provincial life in her father's native land but, at the urging of her English mother, she is thrown into the study of Western music and ballet and becomes a devoted dancer by the time the family relocates to Baghdad. Even as the city around her is transformed by the blackouts and deprivations of the war between Iran and Iraq, she propels herself passionately through the full range of teenage discovery. The death of her father, her first love affair, and her mother's unexpected illness carry her into adulthood and ultimately to London, where she confronts, with surprising results, the other half of her EastWest legacy. A Sky So Close is a captivating look at contemporary Iraq from the inside outa stunning re-creation of the surreality of life during wartime, and the story of a young woman coming to terms with the seemingly unbridgeable cultures from which she is formed. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Very Good in Wrappers.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: As New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Fine in Fine dust jacket. First American edition.
Publicado por NY.2001. Pantheon Books., 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
red & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. very fine cond. mint cond. looks brand new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first american edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 241p. + author bio note acknowledgments. ~ This haunting coming~of~age story about a girl growing up in wartime Iraq was the subject of heated controversy when it was published in the Middle East; now in English, it offers American readers a rare chance to experience an Iraqi childhood. The frank, determined narrator is a schoolgirl living in a small town in the Iraqi countryside when the book opens. Torn between the cultures of her parents, she loves the simple pleasures of provincial life in her father's native land but, at the urging of her English mother, she is thrown into the study of Western music and ballet and becomes a devoted dancer by the time the family relocates to Baghdad. Even as the city around her is transformed by the blackouts and deprivations of the war between Iran and Iraq, she propels herself passionately through the full range of teenage discovery. The death of her father, her first love affair, and her mother's unexpected illness carry her into adulthood and ultimately to London, where she confronts, with surprising results, the other half of her East~West legacy. A Sky So Close is a captivating look at contemporary Iraq from the inside out~a stunning re~creation of the surreality of life during wartime, and the story of a young woman coming to terms with the seemingly unbridgeable cultures from which she is formed. world literature. novels. fiction. arabic literature. middle eastern literature.english literature.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
1st American Edition. 241 [4]p., dj.
Publicado por Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 0375420967 ISBN 13: 9780375420962
Librería: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: USED_ASNEW. 241pp. The red boards have silver gilt lettering on a black spine wrapped in a dust jacket portraying a black and white photograph of bare feet and legs. This novel has been translated from the arabic by Dr. Muhayman Jamil. The text is clean and it is a tight, as new, copy.