River spirit : a novel /
Aboulela, Leila, 1964-
River spirit : a novel / Leila Aboulela. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 311 pages : map ; 22 cm
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice"--
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Belief and doubt--Fiction.
Imperialism--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Faith (Islam)--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Merchants--Fiction.
Muslims--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Prophets--Fiction.
Violence--Fiction.
Sudan--History--1821-1881--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
River spirit : a novel / Leila Aboulela. - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. - 311 pages : map ; 22 cm
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice"--
9780802160669 0802160662
2022044365
Belief and doubt--Fiction.
Imperialism--Fiction.
Slaves--Fiction.
Faith (Islam)--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Merchants--Fiction.
Muslims--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Prophets--Fiction.
Violence--Fiction.
Sudan--History--1821-1881--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.