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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

The heart-warming and uplifting novel about an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live on. A book about identity - about finding your own and creating what you think you're missing.

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  • "A teaspoon of earth and sea"@it

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  • "Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal "Life" magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that "all fate is written in the blood," and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba's world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister's experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of."
  • "The heart-warming and uplifting novel about an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live on. A book about identity - about finding your own and creating what you think you're missing."@en
  • "Fascinated with America, young Saba Hafezi of 1980s Iran becomes convinced that her suddenly missing mother and twin sister have departed for America without her, a situation that compels her to envision her twin's Western life throughout subsequent years."
  • "Fascinated with America, young Saba Hafezi of 1980s Iran becomes convinced that her suddenly missing mother and twin sister have departed for America without her, a situation that compels her to envision her twin's Western life throughout subsequent years."@en
  • "Growing up in Iran, 11-year-old Saba and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America. So when Saba suddenly finds herself abandoned, alone with her father, she is certain her mother and sister have moved to America without her. As she struggles with her limited possibilites over the years, she imagines a parallel life for her sister."@en
  • "Contemporary fiction. A magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal "Life" magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that "all fate is written in the blood," and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba's world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister's experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with modern Western prose, "A Teaspoon of Earth""and Sea" is a tale about memory and the importance of controlling one's own fate."

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  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Text"
  • "Bildungsromans"
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  • "Lejos de nuestra tierra"@es
  • "Lejos de nuestra tierra"
  • "Een theelepel aarde en zee"
  • "A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea"@en
  • "Une pincée de terre et de mer : roman"
  • "Tutto il mare tra di noi"
  • "Tutto il mare tra di noi"@it
  • "Nevidljive niti"
  • "A teaspoon of Earth and sea : [a novel]"@en
  • "A teaspoon of Earth and sea : [a novel]"
  • "A teaspoon of earth and sea"@en
  • "A teaspoon of earth and sea"
  • "En tesked jord och hav"
  • "Une pincée de terre et de mer"

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