The salt road
By: Jane Johnson
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780385669979
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Amulets; Fiction
Description: When Isabelle's estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her some papers and a mysterious African amulet, she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father's possession. When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help uncover the amulet's extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariarta. Across years the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariarta and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. 390-[391].