Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota Fanning

Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.

Camilla Gibb grew up in Toronto after being born in London, England. She is a Ph.D. holder. She earned a bachelor's degree in social anthropology from Oxford University, where she did fieldwork in Ethiopia. Mouthing the Words, which won the City of Toronto Book Prize in 2000, and The Petty Details of So-and-So's Life have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages, and have received acclaim from critics all around the world. She is one of twenty-one writers named to the Orange Futures List, a list of promising young writers created by the Orange Award committee. Camilla is a writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto and serves as vice president of PEN Canada.

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ISBN 13	9780143038726
ISBN 10	0143038729
Title	Sweetness in the Belly
Author	Camilla Gibb
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-03-27
Number of pages	368
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