- Featured Magazines
- Let's Get Cooking!
- News, Politics, and Business
- Lifestyle Magazines
- Popular Magazines
- All Magazines
- See all
-
Description
-
Details
-
Reviews
It’s 2010 and Natasha, a half-Russian, half-Sudanese professor of Islamic studies, is researching the life of Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-century Muslim leader who led the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasian War. When shy, single Natasha discovers that her star student, Oz, is not only descended from the warrior but also possesses Shamil’s priceless sword, the Imam’s story comes vividly to life. As Natasha’s relationship with Oz and his alluring actress mother intensifies, Natasha is forced to confront issues she had long tried to avoid—that of her Muslim heritage. When Oz is suddenly arrested at his home one morning, Natasha realizes that everything she values stands in jeopardy.
Told with Aboulela’s inimitable elegance and narrated from the point of view of both Natasha and the historical characters she is researching, The Kindness of Enemies is both an engrossing story of a provocative period in history and an important examination of what it is to be a Muslim in a post 9/11 world.
“A versatile prose stylist . . . [Aboulela is] a voice for multiculturalism.” —The New York Times
Kindle Book
- Release date: January 5, 2016
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780802190178
- File size: 2428 KB
- Release date: January 5, 2016
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780802190178
- File size: 2778 KB
- Release date: January 5, 2016
Loading
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
subjects
Languages
English