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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (Paperback, Main - Print On Demand)
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A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea (Paperback, Main - Print On Demand)
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Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old
Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America.
They keep lists of English vocabulary words and collect contraband
copies of Life magazine and Bob Dylan cassettes. So when Saba
suddenly finds herself abandoned, alone with her father in Iran,
she is certain that her mother and twin have moved to America
without her. Bereft, she aches for her lost mother and sister, and
for the Western life she believes she is being denied. All her life
Saba has been taught that 'fate is in the blood,' which must mean
that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and
sea. Thus, as time passes and Saba falls in and out of love and
struggles with the limited possibilities available to her as a
woman in Iran, she imagines a simultaneous, parallel life - a
Western version, for her sister. But where Saba's story has all the
grit and brutality of real life in post-revolutionary Iran, her
sister's life - as Saba envisions it - gives her a freedom and
control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colourful cast
of characters, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is told in a bewitching
voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with
straightforward Western prose to form a wholly original story about
the importance of controlling your own fate.
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