Title: Blood and ink
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Islamic fundamentalism, Terrorists, Juvenile fiction, Sufi literature, Antiquities, Islamic antiquities, Sufism, Terrorism, Fiction, History, Islamic fundamentalism -- Juvenile fiction, Terrorists -- Juvenile fiction, Islamic antiquities -- Juvenile fiction, Sufi literature -- Juvenile fiction, Sufism -- Mali -- Juvenile fiction, Islamic fundamentalism -- Fiction, Terrorism -- Fiction, Antiquities -- Fiction, Sufism -- Mali -- Fiction, Tombouctou (Mali) -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Juvenile fiction, Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012- -- Juvenile fiction, Tombouctou (Mali) -- Fiction, Mali -- History -- Tuareg Rebellion, 2012 -- Fiction
Places: Tombouctou (Mali), Mali
Time periods: Tuareg Rebellion, 2012-, 21st century, Tuareg Rebellion, 2012