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Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

Sweetness in the Belly

By Camilla Gibb

By Camilla Gibb

By Camilla Gibb

By Camilla Gibb

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Mar 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780143038726

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    About Sweetness in the Belly

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota Fanning

    Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur’an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can’t escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.

    About Sweetness in the Belly

    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Dakota Fanning

    Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb’s widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur’an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can’t escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.

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    About Camilla Gibb

    CAMILLA GIBB is the author of four novels–Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement–and has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC… More about Camilla Gibb

    About Camilla Gibb

    CAMILLA GIBB is the author of four novels–Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement–and has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC… More about Camilla Gibb

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2007 | 368 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143038726

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2007 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101118290

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    Praise

    Utterly convincing and authentic . . . a novel that will take you to a place so far from yourself that you may wonder, from time to time, whether you are ever coming back. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    A story that pierces the heart . . . a lovely and humane book that . . . open[s] up to view distant or closed worlds. (The Miami Herald)

    A wonderful feat of imagination and empathy. I had to suppress bitter feelings of literary envy, even as I couldn’t stop devouring it. (Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin)

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