Take what you can carry : a novel / Gian Sardar.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 322 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781542026895
- 154202689X
- 9781542022422
- 1542022428
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Main Library | Fiction | SARDAR, GIAN | Available | 33111010745673 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan.
It's 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work. 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. Yet when the return home proves less safe than Delan believed, Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected, and is awakened to the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military under curfew and constant threat.
But in this world torn apart by war, there are intoxicating sights and scents, Delan's loving family, innocence not yet compromised, and small acts of kindness that flourish unexpectedly. All of it will be tested when Olivia captures a shattering, tragic moment on film, one that upends all their lives and proves that true bravery begins with an open heart.
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.
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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