{"product_id":"9781668007433-the-refugee-ocean","title":"Toutonghi Pauls - The Refugee Ocean - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked over time and distance by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music. Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family and her society hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance love transforms her life. Together with him she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She's hoping for a new beginning. Instead she finds revolution and chaos. Over fifty years later Na m Rahil is a teenage refugee from Aleppo Syria. A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America and who has lost part of his hand in the war he dreams of a simple normal life. Moving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war to Lebanon in the late 1940s to Havana during the Cuban Revolution to the suburbs of Washington DC The Refugee Ocean grapples with what it means to be an immigrant shows how wounds can heal and highlights the role of music and art in the resilience of the human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Refugee Ocean\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Toutonghi Pauls\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781668007433\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 352 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/3\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Modern \u0026amp; Contemporary Fiction","brand":"Toutonghi Pauls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622890479921,"sku":"IN-G-9781668007433","price":22.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781668007433.jpg?v=1724708668","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781668007433-the-refugee-ocean","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}