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02356aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 5CC47238300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 190821s2020 enkb 000 f eng d 020 $a 1408879409 020 $a 9781408879405 020 $a 9781408879412 020 $a 1408879417 035 $a (OCoLC)1110440354 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d KAY $d SILO 043 $a a-iq--- 050 4 $a PR6103.O688 $b A65 2020 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Cooper, Paul M. M., $e author. 245 10 $a All our broken idols / $c Paul M.M. Cooper. 264 1 $a London : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2020. 300 $a 353 pages : $b maps ; $c 24 cm 520 $a Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and her daydreaming brother Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival, as they dodge the beatings of their drunken father and scrabble for scraps of food. One violent evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the beautiful, near-mythical city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king - and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from organised looters, following in the footsteps of her dead father. When she and Salim, a fellow archaeologist, discover an astonishingly beautiful and rare carving, they know their find will bring the world's attention to Mosul. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll to catastrophic, devastating effect when ISIL storm Mosul - and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. All Our Broken Idols is hauntingly evocative, a novel in which past and present lives intertwine and stories travel across the ages. It is a story about the importance of art and the threat it poses to those in power. And it is about bravery; standing up for what you believe in, and who you love. 650 0 $a Archaeologists $v Fiction. $9 218195 651 0 $a Iraq $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Action and adventure fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802158 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft $9 802185 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061945.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5CC47238300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search