The cry of the dove
By: Fadia Faqir.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780802170408
Subjects: Honor killings -- Fiction.; Bedouins -- England -- Fiction.; Bedouins -- Fiction.; Women -- Middle East -- Social conditions.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Left pregnant after an illicit love affair, Saalma, a young Bedouin woman from Hima in the Levant, flees her people to escape the honor killing waiting for her at the hands of her tribe and seeks asylum in England.