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A Mouth Full of Salt

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Product Code: 9780863567728
ISBN13: 9780863567728
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The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the women have work to do, the children play at the place where the river runs over its own banks. Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum. In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village. A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose - and which prophecies it's time to rewrite


Author: Reem Gaafar
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publication Date: Sep 03, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 086356772X
ISBN-13: 9780863567728

A Mouth Full of Salt

$21.95
$19.50
Sale 11%
 
The Nile brings them life, but the Nile also takes away. A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and the date gardens catch fire and burn to the ground. The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains. It is the dry season. The men have places to go, the women have work to do, the children play at the place where the river runs over its own banks. Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum. In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village. A Mouth Full of Salt uncovers a country on the brink of seismic change as its women decide for themselves which traditions are fit for purpose - and which prophecies it's time to rewrite


Author: Reem Gaafar
Publisher: Saqi Books
Publication Date: Sep 03, 2024
Number of Pages: NA pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 086356772X
ISBN-13: 9780863567728
 

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