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Author:

Ackerman, Elliot.

Title:

Dark at the crossing [large print] / by Elliot Ackerman.

Format:

[large print] /

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Large print book.
Missing girls--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Refugees--Fiction.
Civil War--Fiction.
Translators--Fiction.

Summary:

[A] timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria"--Provided by publisher. "Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? And will he be able to bring meaning to a life of increasing frustration and helplessness?

ISBN:

141049957X LP :
9781410499578 LP :

LCCN:

2017003273

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

NJPD993 -- Clarion Public Library (Clarion)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)