ricerca
avanzata

The Librarian Of Basra - 9780152054458

Un libro in lingua di Jeanette Winter Winter Jeanette (ILT) edito da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

  • € 16.10
  • Il prezzo è variabile in funzione del cambio della valuta d’origine

"In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was 'Read.'"*
--Alia Muhammad Baker

Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever.

In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all how, throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge know no boundaries.

Includes an author's note.
*From the New York Times, July 27, 2003

Informazioni bibliografiche