Sweetness in the Belly
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Thank you for finding this book and welcome to bookcrossing! Bookcrossing is a wonderful place to share your love of reading with people all over the world. You can make an anonymous journal entry but if you do, you won't be able to get notification each time someone else journals this book. Following this books travels is very fun.
from amazon: "In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa, and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover. Back in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, the young Lilly, born in the 1950s to British parents, now orphaned and full of religious conviction, finds herself living in the city of Harare. She is drawn to the idealistic young doctor, Aziz, himself an outsider in the community. But then convulsions of a new revolutionary order separate them, sending Lilly to an England, she has never seen, while Aziz disappears. Camilla Gibb's evocation of the distinctive world of the ancient city and of its unique religion and culture is vivid and rich. She draws us just as completely into the mind of the older Lilly, emotionally paralysed by her loss. The result is a fascinating and remarkably moving portrayal of a life lived at the cusp of two cultures."
This book is a very atmospheric picture of a different culture, through the eyes of someone who was not born a part of that culture, but adopted by it as a child. The style of alternate sections telling the story from different time periods in the life of the main character, meant that two stories were told in parallel (but intrinsically linked together). It meant that right up until the end I was hooked, as I wanted to know more about what it was in her past that made her the person she was in the present. It increased my knowledge of what it means to be a Muslim
from amazon: "In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa, and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover. Back in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, the young Lilly, born in the 1950s to British parents, now orphaned and full of religious conviction, finds herself living in the city of Harare. She is drawn to the idealistic young doctor, Aziz, himself an outsider in the community. But then convulsions of a new revolutionary order separate them, sending Lilly to an England, she has never seen, while Aziz disappears. Camilla Gibb's evocation of the distinctive world of the ancient city and of its unique religion and culture is vivid and rich. She draws us just as completely into the mind of the older Lilly, emotionally paralysed by her loss. The result is a fascinating and remarkably moving portrayal of a life lived at the cusp of two cultures."
This book is a very atmospheric picture of a different culture, through the eyes of someone who was not born a part of that culture, but adopted by it as a child. The style of alternate sections telling the story from different time periods in the life of the main character, meant that two stories were told in parallel (but intrinsically linked together). It meant that right up until the end I was hooked, as I wanted to know more about what it was in her past that made her the person she was in the present. It increased my knowledge of what it means to be a Muslim
Journal Entry 2 by bookowl1000 at Netley Waterside House Book trolley in Netley Marsh, Hampshire United Kingdom on Monday, January 26, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (1/27/2009 UTC) at Netley Waterside House Book trolley in Netley Marsh, Hampshire United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Left at offical bookcrossing zone. If you were lucky enough to have found it please journal to describe where you found it and what you thought of it. Then release it for someone else to find. Keep its journey alive!
Left at offical bookcrossing zone. If you were lucky enough to have found it please journal to describe where you found it and what you thought of it. Then release it for someone else to find. Keep its journey alive!
