The Resource Bird summons, Leila Aboulela
Bird summons, Leila Aboulela
Resource Information
The item Bird summons, Leila Aboulela represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Bird summons, Leila Aboulela represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she's never known. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780802149152
- Label
- Bird summons
- Title
- Bird summons
- Statement of responsibility
- Leila Aboulela
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Muslim women
- Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Automobile travel
- Muslims -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Self-realization
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- Muslims
- Automobile travel -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When Salma, Moni, and Iman-friends and active members of their local Muslim Women's group-decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obligation, frustrated desire, and dull predictability. Each wants something more out of life, but fears the cost of taking it. Salma is successful and happily married, but tempted to risk it all when she's contacted by her first love back in Egypt; Moni gave up a career in banking to care for her disabled son without the help of her indifferent husband; and Iman, in her twenties and already on her third marriage, longs for the freedom and autonomy she's never known. When the women are visited by the Hoopoe, a sacred bird from Muslim and Celtic literature, they are compelled to question their relationships to faith and femininity, love, loyalty, and sacrifice"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Aboulela, Leila
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6051.B68
- LC item number
- B57 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Muslim women
- Muslims
- Automobile travel
- Self-realization
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Automobile travel
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Muslim women
- Muslims
- Self-realization
- Great Britain
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Bird summons, Leila Aboulela
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1122689246
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802149152
- Lccn
- 2019045234
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Bird summons, Leila Aboulela
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1122689246
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802149152
- Lccn
- 2019045234
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Great Britain
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Muslim women
- Muslim women -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Automobile travel
- Muslims -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Self-realization
- Self-realization -- Fiction
- Muslims
- Automobile travel -- Fiction
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Library Locations
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