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Khalid and Amira are taken away from their well-loved childhood home due to the civil war in Syria. This book comes across as an ode to their childhood, their happy memories and the places they were created, but it is also a pilgrimage through life, how the childhood friends move and grow into adulthood.
A mix of genres, this book focuses on relationships, culture and family as Amira and Khalid’s story develops, and I think this would be a good recommendation for people who like books similar to The Kite Runner- two characters growing and changing with a background of conflict is quite similar. This is also a great way to educate about a very real conflict through the guise of fiction and the use of fictional characters. I didn’t know much about the conflicts in Syria and the backdrop of Khalid and Amira’s story was enlightening.
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Princess Mira Synopsis
“Do you think we will ever come back Khalid?” Amira asks.“I really hope so Amira, I really do…and maybe, just maybe, we will return to this same willow tree, if it is still standing”. Amira turns back one final time to gaze upon her childhood park. As she muses into deep daydream over past memories, she feels a part of her soul seal itself with an everlasting imprint on the walls and streets of her town, the swings of Shamsa Park, and the weeping willow tree that stood like a protective guardian, for this was the only departing gift she could present to her broken home of Aleppo. 14 year old Amira, an aspiring poet, finds herself dawning upon the new era of the Syrian civil war that commences in 2011, bringing a vast diaspora and mass exodus of Syrian refugees into different countries within Europe. Neither Amira nor Khalid, her oldest childhood friend, can foresee where the journey will take them...Testing all their limits, follow their extraordinary, heart-breaking pilgrimage through which they discover a deeper meaning to what love, friendship and separation really means... This novel that follows the heartbreaking journey of two childhood friends, Amira and Khalid, as they flee their war torn town of Aleppo, Syria. Intertwining reality and fictionality in a perfect balance, the story enthralls you into themes surrounding the ongoing war, which sadly exists today, and these two childhood friends are thrust into disarray and fear as they are forced to abandon their broken home, and spend their early teenage years to adulthood on an extraordinary pilgrimage of escape as Aleppo drowns in the deluge of Syria self-perpetuating war. Friendship, love and separation take on a deeper meaning as this childhood duo configure a plan on an unknown path to safety and a new life, but grasping onto old memories in hope of one day returning back to Syria.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781709951923 |
| Publication date: |
6th December 2019 |
| Author: |
Nazahah Zahid |
| Publisher: |
Independently published |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Primary Genre |
Indie Author Books
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