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Sweetness in the belly

Orphaned at the age of eight, British-born Lilly devotes her life to the teachings of the Qur'an from within a Sufi shrine, but is persecuted for her foreign heritage, forcing her to flee to London, where she is equally disconnected.

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  • "Orphaned at the age of eight, British-born Lilly devotes her life to the teachings of the Qur'an from within a Sufi shrine, but is persecuted for her foreign heritage, forcing her to flee to London, where she is equally disconnected."
  • "Orphaned at the age of eight, British-born Lilly devotes her life to the teachings of the Qur'an from within a Sufi shrine, but is persecuted for her foreign heritage, forcing her to flee to London, where she is equally disconnected."@en
  • "Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs."@en
  • ""When Lilly is eight years old, her pot-smoking hippie British parents leave her at a Sufi shrine in Morocco and inform her they will be back to collect her in three days. Three weeks later, she learns they've been murdered. Lilly fills that haunted hollow in her life with the intense study of the Qur'an under the watchful eye of the saint's disciple she was entrusted to. Years later, her journey from Morocco to Harar, Ethiopia, is half pilgrimage, half flight. In Harar, even her traditional Muslim head scarves cannot hide her white skin in her strange new surroundings; the word farenji - foreigner - is hissed at her at every turn. She eventually builds a life for herself teaching children the Qur'an, and she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young doctor. But the two are wrenched apart when Lilly is again forced to flee, this time to London. Despite her British roots, Lilly discovers she is as much of an outsider in London as she was in Harar.""
  • "The life story of Lilly, a white Muslim nurse born in Ethiopia to British parents in the 1950s."
  • "A nurse working in London tells her Ethiopian refugee neighbours of the love she experienced while living in that country and of her continuing search for her lover."
  • ""When Lilly is eight years old, her pot-smoking hippie British parents leave her at a Sufi shrine in Morocco and inform her they will be back to collect her in three days. Three weeks later, she learns they've been murdered. Lilly fills that haunted hollow in her life with the intense study of the Qur'an under the watchful eye of the saint's disciple she was entrusted to. Years later, her journey from Morocco to Harar, Ethiopia, is half pilgrimage, half flight. In Harar, even her traditional Muslim head scarves cannot hide her white skin in her strange new surroundings; the word farenji - foreigner - is hissed at her at every turn. She eventually builds a life for herself teaching children the Qur'an, and she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young doctor. But the two are wrenched apart when Lilly is again forced to flee, this time to London. Despite her British roots, Lilly discovers she is as much of an outsider in London as she was in Harar."--Jacket."
  • ""Born to hippie British parents then raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco after they are murdered, Lilly grows up amid the serenity of mystical Islam. As a young woman, she goes on a pilgrimage to the walled city of Harar, Ethiiopia, where she builds a life teaching the Qu'ran to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even in a traditional headscarf, Lilly is always marked as a foreigner. And when she is forced to flee Ehtiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs." -- Back cover."
  • "Set in Emperor Haile Selassie's Ethiopia and the racially charged world of Thatcher's London, the book is a detailed portrayal of one woman's search for love and belonging."
  • "Een Brits meisje krijgt in Ethiopië te maken met politieke vluchtelingen."
  • "Lilly, jeune Anglaise vivant au Maroc, a étudié le Coran et s'est révélée profondément croyante. Obligée de partir en Ethiopie, elle y découvre le fondamentalisme islamique tout en subissant le contexte politique dans lequel il prend de l'importance. Que restera-t-il de sa religion et de son identité lorsqu'elle sera réduite à sa condition de femme et d'étrangère, puis renvoyée à Londres ?"

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  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Histoires d'amour"
  • "Translations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "French language materials"
  • "Canadian fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "ha-Metiḳut sheba-beṭen"
  • "De terugkeer van Lilly"
  • "Lilly : pencarian cinta seorang gadis Eropa di Etiopia"
  • "המתיקות שבבטן"
  • "Le miel d'Harar"
  • "Sweetness in the belly"@en
  • "Sweetness in the belly"
  • "Sto dva koraka"
  • "Las murallas de Harar"
  • "Las murallas de Harar"@es
  • "Le miel d'Harar : roman"

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