Take what you can carry : a novel /
Sardar, Gian,
Take what you can carry : a novel / Gian Sardar. - First edition. - 322 pages ; 22 cm
Includes discussion questions.
A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life. 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan's childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. The trip proves less safe than Delan believed, and Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected: the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military and under curfew and constant threat. When Olivia captures a tragic moment on film, it upends all their lives. -- adapted from jacket
9781542026895 154202689X 9781542022422 1542022428
GBC175978 bnb
020194461 Uk
Photojournalists--Fiction.
Kurds--Iraq--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Terrorism--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Kurdistān (Iraq)--Fiction.
Romance fiction.
Take what you can carry : a novel / Gian Sardar. - First edition. - 322 pages ; 22 cm
Includes discussion questions.
A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life. 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan's childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. The trip proves less safe than Delan believed, and Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected: the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military and under curfew and constant threat. When Olivia captures a tragic moment on film, it upends all their lives. -- adapted from jacket
9781542026895 154202689X 9781542022422 1542022428
GBC175978 bnb
020194461 Uk
Photojournalists--Fiction.
Kurds--Iraq--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Terrorism--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Kurdistān (Iraq)--Fiction.
Romance fiction.