River spirit, a novel, Leila Aboulela
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- Enslaved persons -- Fiction
- Belief and doubt -- Fiction
- Prophets -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Merchants -- Fiction
- Muslims -- Fiction
- Sudan -- History -- 1821-1881 -- Fiction
- Imperialism -- Fiction
- Islam -- Fiction
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River spirit, a novel, Leila Aboulela
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
River spirit
Oclc number
1336986205
Responsibility statement
Leila Aboulela
Sub title
a novel
Summary
"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"--, Dust jacket flap
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