ISBN: 9780434014538 SKU: 1183032 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. This 2006 William Heinemann Hardback is in Near Mint condition. Despite her British roots, Lilly discovers she is as much of an outsider in London as she was in Harar.'-BOOK JACKET. But the two are wrenched apart when Lilly is again forced to flee, this time to London. She eventually builds a life for herself teaching children the Qur'an, and she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young doctor. In Harar, even her traditional Muslim head scarves cannot hide her white skin in her strange new surroundings the word farenji - foreigner - is hissed at her at every turn. Kirkus Reviews writes that the novel 'reflect(s) the pain, cultural. Sweetness in the Belly was universally praised for the tremendous empathy that Gibb brings to an ambitious story. Years later, her journey from Morocco to Harar, Ethiopia, is half pilgrimage, half flight. Camilla Gibb reached international best seller status with novels that garner immense critical acclaim for their stunning insights into the human condition. Lilly fills that haunted hollow in her life with the intense study of the Qur'an under the watchful eye of the saint's disciple she was entrusted to. Three weeks later, she learns they've been murdered. 'When Lilly is eight years old, her pot-smoking hippie British parents leave her at a Sufi shrine in Morocco and inform her they will be back to collect her in three days.
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