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Kamila is nine years old when she is taken from the poverty of her childhood village in southern Lebanon to Beirut. She has never learned to read or write though she longs to go to school. Stories, poetry and film are her passion - and a beautiful boy called Muhammad. They fall in love before Kamila is forced into an arranged marriage, despite her tears and screams. She is only fourteen years old. On her wedding night, her first daughter is conceived; four years later, Hanan is born. Kamila and Muhammad continue to see each other in secret, risking their lives. It is eight years before Kamila can bring herself to divorce her husband, as to do so means leaving her daughters behind. Beautifully evoking the dusty streets of Beirut and life in Lebanon, this is a heartbreaking memoir of an extraordinary woman.
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302 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Kamila Is Nine Years Old When She Is Taken From The Poverty Of Her Childhood Village.When Fourteen She Is Forced Into An Arranged Marriage.
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...the author's journalistic talent reveals itself in her ability to get past her own abandonment to paint Kamila as a vivid, wilful girl who lived as though she were the heroine of a great film.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1408800845
- ISBN 13 9781408800843
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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