Aboulela, L: Kindness of Enemies
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Orion Publishing Group
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
13.08.2015
Verlag
Orion Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
23.3/15.1/2.7 cm
Gewicht
443 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4746-0010-1
The book opens in Scotland, 2010. Natasha is an academic whose special interest is Imam Shamil, the warrior who led the fight to protect the Caucasus from Russian invasion from 1830 to 1859. When she discovers that her best student, Oz Raja, is descended from Shamil and that his mother possesses the mighty warrior's sword, Natasha is delighted. Born of a Sudanese father and a Russian mother, Natasha was denied a Muslim heritage and is quickly drawn into Raja family life. But with Oz determined to uphold Jihad as an internal and spiritual struggle, Natasha finds that her career, her home and the fragile foundations on which she has built her life are in grave danger. In the Caucasus, 1839, Shamil feels the burden of command weigh heavily upon him when he is forced to surrender his eldest son, Jamaleldin, to the Russians as proof of his commitment to negotiate peace. But although his son is taken hostage, the fighting continues, leaving Shamil bereft. Years later, in 1854, Shamil captures Anna Elinichna, a Princess of Georgia, and will only exchange her for the safe return of his son. But Jamaleldin is now a favourite of the Tsar and enjoys fine clothes, parties and dancing with the women of the Russian court. If forced to return, will he be the boy that Shamil remembers? And can Shamil give up Anna, whose beauty, dignity and composure he is beginning to find very attractive? Moving from present-day Scotland to nineteenth-century Russia, the wild mountains of the Caucasus and the elegant court of the Tsar, this is an evocative epic of conquest and betrayal, of love, loss and reconciliation between families and nations at war.
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