Edité par Pantheon, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. New York: Pantheon [2001]. First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. NEW. A tight unread copy, very fine/very fine in all respects. Red remainder dot top edge SALE.
Edité par Pantheon Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 241 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black paper with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial wrappers. Translated by Muhayman Jamil. Review copy with material laid in. First edition. This haunting coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in wartime Iraq was the subject of heated controversy when it was published in the Middle East; now in English, it offers American readers a rare chance to experience an Iraqi childhood. The frank, determined narrator is a schoolgirl living in a small town in the Iraqi countryside when the book opens. Torn between the cultures of her parents, she loves the simple pleasures of provincial life in her father's native land but, at the urging of her English mother, she is thrown into the study of Western music and ballet and becomes a devoted dancer by the time the family relocates to Baghdad. Even as the city around her is transformed by the blackouts and deprivations of the war between Iran and Iraq, she propels herself passionately through the full range of teenage discovery. The death of her father, her first love affair, and her mother's unexpected illness carry her into adulthood and ultimately to London, where she confronts, with surprising results, the other half of her EastWest legacy. A Sky So Close is a captivating look at contemporary Iraq from the inside outa stunning re-creation of the surreality of life during wartime, and the story of a young woman coming to terms with the seemingly unbridgeable cultures from which she is formed. Condition: Fine in like jacket.
Edité par Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.
Edité par Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.
Edité par Pantheon Books, New York, NY, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Edité par Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, Etats-Unis
paperback. Etat : Very Good in Wrappers.
Edité par Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Fine in Fine dust jacket. First American edition.
Edité par NY.2001. Pantheon Books., 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
red & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic. very fine cond. mint cond. looks brand new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first american edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 241p. + author bio note acknowledgments. ~ This haunting coming~of~age story about a girl growing up in wartime Iraq was the subject of heated controversy when it was published in the Middle East; now in English, it offers American readers a rare chance to experience an Iraqi childhood. The frank, determined narrator is a schoolgirl living in a small town in the Iraqi countryside when the book opens. Torn between the cultures of her parents, she loves the simple pleasures of provincial life in her father's native land but, at the urging of her English mother, she is thrown into the study of Western music and ballet and becomes a devoted dancer by the time the family relocates to Baghdad. Even as the city around her is transformed by the blackouts and deprivations of the war between Iran and Iraq, she propels herself passionately through the full range of teenage discovery. The death of her father, her first love affair, and her mother's unexpected illness carry her into adulthood and ultimately to London, where she confronts, with surprising results, the other half of her East~West legacy. A Sky So Close is a captivating look at contemporary Iraq from the inside out~a stunning re~creation of the surreality of life during wartime, and the story of a young woman coming to terms with the seemingly unbridgeable cultures from which she is formed. world literature. novels. fiction. arabic literature. middle eastern literature.english literature.
Edité par Pantheon Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
1st American Edition. 241 [4]p., dj.
Edité par Pantheon, New York, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. 1st Edition. New York: Pantheon [2001]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New! Very fine/Very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. Comes with acid-free mylar dust jacket protector. Purchased new and never opened. "K"/F4100.
Edité par Pantheon Books, 2001
ISBN 10 : 0375420967 ISBN 13 : 9780375420962
Vendeur : David Kenyon, King's Lynn, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : As New. 241pp. The red boards have silver gilt lettering on a black spine wrapped in a dust jacket portraying a black and white photograph of bare feet and legs. This novel has been translated from the arabic by Dr. Muhayman Jamil. The text is clean and it is a tight, as new, copy.