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      A Sky So Close: Betool Khedairi >  
      Author Khedairi, Betool
      Publisher Anchor Books
      ISBN 0385720785
      Binding PB
      List Price £9.99
      Discount Price £8.99  (£1.00 off!) 
      Categories Fiction, Middle East 
      buy this book 
       "A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The 
New York Times 
      In this elegant, incisive debut, a young girl comes of age while aching 
for a sense of belonging. Daughter of an Iraqi father and an English mother, 
the unnamed narrator struggles with isolation both in the traditional Iraqi 
countryside where she's raised and at the Western school of music and ballet 
that her mother insists she attend. Though she finds some semblance of solace 
in dance, her trials increase when her family moves to Baghdad. Then comes the 
outbreak of war, which compels her to move with her mother to England, where 
her most pointed heartaches await. Gently poetic but emotionally unflinching, 
'A Sky So Close' is a daringly fresh look into the clash between East and West 
and into the soul of a woman formed by two cultures yet fully accepted by 
neither. 
      "A lush first novel . . . both impressionistic and accomplished." --The 
New York Times
      "A memorable book about growing up between two cultures." -Alan Cheuse, 
All Things Considered
      "[V]ividly rendered . . . . [Q]uiet yet powerful." -Booklist
      "[An] assured first novel . . . a valuable book . . . .What's most 
remarkable here is the buoyancy that Khedairi sustains even as her child 
heroine grows up." --LA Times 
      Betool Khedairi was born in Baghdad in 1965 to an Iraqi father and a 
Scottish mother. She received a B.A. in French literature from the University 
of Mustansirya and then traveled between Iraq, Jordan, and the United Kingdom, 
working in the food industry while writing 'A Sky So Close', which was 
published in Arabic in Lebanon in 1999. She currently lives in Amman, where she 
is working on her second novel. 
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