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The Map of Salt and Stars
- Narrateur(s): Lara Sawalha
- Durée: 12 h et 17 min
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Description
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living 800 years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker - places today's headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer. Her mother, a cartographer who creates unusual, hand-painted maps, decides to move Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. But the country Nour's mother once knew is changing, and it isn't long before protests and shelling threaten their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee as refugees across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety. As their journey becomes more and more challenging, Nour's idea of home becomes a dream she struggles to remember and a hope she cannot live without.
More than 800 years earlier, Rawiya, 16 and a widow's daughter, knows she must do something to help her impoverished mother. Restless and longing to see the world, she leaves home to seek her fortune. Disguising herself as a boy named Rami, she becomes an apprentice to al-Idrisi, who has been commissioned by King Roger II of Sicily to create a map of the world. In his employ, Rawiya embarks on an epic journey across the Middle East and the north of Africa, where she encounters ferocious mythical beasts, epic battles, and real historical figures.
A deep immersion into the richly varied cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, The Map of Salt and Stars follows the journeys of Nour and Rawiya as they travel along identical paths across the region 800 years apart, braving the unknown beside their companions as they are pulled by the promise of reaching home at last.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Cynthia Hawkins Lindell
- 2019-10-26
Refugee life
This book gave me such a good understanding of the challenges for refugees. The reading was beautiful - accent, pronunciations, intonation. I'm so glad that I listened to this book instead of reading it!
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- Angelica H
- 2018-10-28
Powerful, gripping story
I wasn’t sure what to expect with the Map of Salt and Stars, especially as my first audiobook experience.
I was engaged from start to finish with this story. Joukhadar’s writing is powerful and gripping, seamlessly tying two stories together and making the reader feel like they’re on the aid ship, in the water or wandering the desert.
Sawalha’s narration was perfectly matched to the story, the characters and the overall feel of the book.
5 stars - I highly recommend this read, in whatever form you read it in.
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- Johannah
- 2022-04-16
beautifully written story
the writing is poetic and beautiful however the political undertones are somewhat reactionary. A story within a story presents a feudal era king as a beacon of progress - somewhat disturbing given that the main story is about people fleeing the violence of a tyrant who is painted by reactionaries (in real life, not in the novel) as a beacon of progress. This coupled with some disparaging comments about the young men who protest that same regime leaves us wondering if the author is truly for the people. there is no neutral or centre position when tyrannical leaders massacre their own people. we must support refugees but also the protestors and freedom fighters standing up against the regime.
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