The Road from Damascus

Robin Yassin-Kassab

Original title: The road from Damascus

first published 2008 Hamish Hamilton, 2008 348 pages

It is summer 2001 and Sami Traifi has escaped his fraying marriage and minimal job prospects to visit Damascus. In search of his roots and himself, he instead finds a forgotten uncle in a gloomy back room, and an ugly secret about his beloved father...Returning to London, Sami finds even more to test him as his young wife Muntaha reveals that she is taking up the hijab. Sami embarks on a wilfully ragged journey in th...

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The road from Damascus edition · 2009 · Penguin Books · 348 pages · 9780141035642
The Road from Damascus ebook · 2009 · Penguin Group UK · 9780141918518
The road from Damascus edition · 2008 · Hamish Hamilton · 348 pages · 9780241144091

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