Nimr Sonia - Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Sonia Nimr's award - winning Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist - fable - plus - historical - novel that tells an episodic travel narrative like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. The story begins hundreds of years ago when our hero - Qamar - is born as an outcast at the foot of a mountain in Palestine near her father's strange isolated village. Qamar's mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd conservative village. Then in 1001 Nights style this tale moves into another. Qamar's parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Qamar takes her favorite book Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands and flees through Gaza to Egypt where she is captured enslaved and sold to the sister of the mad king in Egypt. After escaping she flees to study with a polymath in Morocco. But when it's discovered she's a girl she must leave again disguising herself as a boy pirate to sail the Mediterranean. Through all her fast - paced battles mysteries and adventures Qamar never finds a home but she does manage to create a family.
Title: Wondrous Journeys In Strange Lands
Author(s): Nimr Sonia
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group Inc
Barcode: 9781623716486
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 11/12/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction