A thousand veils
Subtitle: a novel
By: DJ Murphy
Publisher: Www.lulu.com
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781435705319
Subjects: Women; Fiction; Right of Asylum; Iraq War, 2003-2011
Description: When Fatima Shihabi, an Iraqi poet and journalist, learns she is marked for death by Saddam Hussein's secret police, she flees Iraq, evading Saddam's helicopters hunting her in the desert, only to discover that no other country will grant her asylum. Her flight from Saddam's vengeance, and the extraordinary efforts of Charles Sherman, a Wall Street lawyer, to save her life, is the subject of this gripping novel, inspired by a true story. How Fatima and Charles, bound by their common humanity, love for each other, and fate, manage to thwart Saddam and achieve redemption sends a powerful message to the post-9/11 world. Their story points the way toward eventual reconciliation and synthesis between Islam and the West.