A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the
Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers
searching for meaning.
When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away
from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has
crossed the world to escape. Yet as she moves into a tumbling
Ottoman house in the heart of the Old City, she is unprepared for
the complex world that awaits her: an ancient capital where Sunni
and Shia Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Kurds, and Palestinian and
Iraqi refugees share a fragile co-existence.
Soon she is stumbling through the Arabic language, fielding
interviews from the secret police, and struggling to make the city
her own. But as the political climate darkens and the war in
neighboring Iraq threatens to spill over, she flees to an ancient
Christian monastery carved into the desert cliffs, where she is
forced to confront the life she left behind. Soon she will meet a
series of improbable teachers: an iconoclastic Italian priest, a
famous female Muslim sheikh, a wounded Iraqi refugee, and Frederic,
a young French novice monk who becomes her best friend.
What follows is a tender story of a woman falling in love: with
God, with her own life, with a country on the brink of chaos, and
with a man she knows she can never have. Wise, funny, and
heartbreaking, "The Bread of Angels "celebrates the hope that
appears even in war, the surprising places we can call home, and
the possibility of true love.
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