Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
|
Not currently available
All Our Broken Idols (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
You Save: R165
(23%)
|
|
All Our Broken Idols (Hardcover)
(1 rating, sign in to rate)
List price R704
Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
You Save R165 (23%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Historical fiction Book of the Month in The Times To the god of old
things To the gods of the riverbank To the god of hunters Assyria,
in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and her daydreaming brother
Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival, as they dodge the
beatings of their drunken father and scrabble for scraps of food.
One violent evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the
barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the beautiful, near-mythical
city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of
the king - and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six
centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in
Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from organised
looters, following in the footsteps of her dead father. When she
and Salim, a fellow archaeologist, discover an astonishingly
beautiful and rare carving, they know their find will bring the
world's attention to Mosul. But the real world crashes in to their
studious idyll to catastrophic, devastating effect when ISIL storm
Mosul - and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. All Our
Broken Idols is hauntingly evocative, a novel in which past and
present lives intertwine and stories travel across the ages. It is
a story about the importance of art and the threat it poses to
those in power. And it is about bravery; standing up for what you
believe in, and who you love.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.