The Bread of Angels

The Bread of Angels
Author :
Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780307280466
ISBN-13 : 0307280462
Rating : 4/5 (462 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Bread of Angels by : Stephanie Saldana

Download or read book The Bread of Angels written by Stephanie Saldana and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed the world to escape. Yet as she moves into a tumbling Ottoman house in the heart of the Old City, she is unprepared for the complex world that awaits her: an ancient capital where Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Kurds, and Palestinian and Iraqi refugees share a fragile co-existence. Soon she is stumbling through the Arabic language, fielding interviews from the secret police, and struggling to make the city her own. But as the political climate darkens and the war in neighboring Iraq threatens to spill over, she flees to an ancient Christian monastery carved into the desert cliffs, where she is forced to confront the life she left behind. Soon she will meet a series of improbable teachers: an iconoclastic Italian priest, a famous female Muslim sheikh, a wounded Iraqi refugee, and Frédéric, a young French novice monk who becomes her best friend. What follows is a tender story of a woman falling in love: with God, with her own life, with a country on the brink of chaos, and with a man she knows she can never have. Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, The Bread of Angels celebrates the hope that appears even in war, the surprising places we can call home, and the possibility of true love.


The Bread of Angels Related Books

The Bread of Angels
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Stephanie Saldana
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-08 - Publisher: Anchor

GET EBOOK

A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When
The Long Road to Baghdad
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Edmund Candler
Categories: Baghdad (Iraq)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1919 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

An account of the Mesopotamian campaign which includes an extensive description of the Battle of Dujaila fought on 8 March 1916, between British and Ottoman for
The American Philatelist
Language: en
Pages: 518
Authors:
Categories: Stamp collecting
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: James Fallows
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-06 - Publisher: Vintage

GET EBOOK

“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale an
Reading the World with Picture Books
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Nancy J. Polette
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-21 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

GET EBOOK

This valuable reference guide provides suggestions of picture books set in more than 70 countries in each continent of the world, along with standards-based act