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No Land to Light On

Yara Zgheib
ID 419095
Slug no-land-to-light-on
Contributors
Author : Yara Zgheib
Annotation
Description <p>Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future...when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son's birth.<br /><br />Boston, 2017: When Hadi returns to his heavily pregnant partner Sama after a trip home to bury his father, he is stopped at border control - a hostile new immigration law has just been enacted - while she awaits him on the other side. <br /><br />Worlds apart, suspended between hope and disillusion as hours become days become weeks, Sama and Hadi yearn for a way back to each other, and to the life they'd dreamed up together. But does that life exist any more, or was it only an illusion? <br /><br />Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is the story of a family caught up in forces beyond their control, fighting for the freedom and home they found in one another.</p>
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher Atlantic
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 304
Duration
Publication date first 2022-01-27
Publication date latest 2022-01-31
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  • ISBN: 9781838954864 (BC)

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