Blood and ink
By: Stephen Davies
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781580897907
Subjects: Politics and government; Islamic fundamentalism; Terrorists; Juvenile fiction; Sufi literature; Antiquities; Islamic antiquities; Sufism; Terrorism; Fiction; History
Description: Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the library in the ancient city of Timbuktu, Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained by Islamist militants--and both are caught up in the war in Mali and on opposite sides of the stuggle to save the sacred Sufi manuscripts that the militants want to destroy.
Notes: "First published in 2015 by Andersen Press Limited...London"--Copyright page.