The Refugee Ocean Toutonghi Pauls
Two refugees in America find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting song.Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a…
Specifikacia The Refugee Ocean Toutonghi Pauls
Two refugees in America find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting song.Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family--and her society--hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She's hoping for a new beginning. Instead, she finds revolution and chaos.Over fifty years later, Nam Rahil is a teenage refugee from Aleppo, Syria. A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America--and who has lost part of his hand in the war--he dreams of a simple, normal life.Moving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war, to Lebanon in the late 1940s, to
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