Dreams From The Endz
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Tellimisel
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9780099512929
Description:
'Dreams from the Endz' is the story of twenty-four Ahleme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, w...
'Dreams from the Endz' is the story of twenty-four Ahleme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, w...
Description:
'Dreams from the Endz' is the story of twenty-four Ahleme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, while she is left to deal with the guilt trips from their family back in Algeria. But when she returns home - after a ten-year absence - she brokers a kind of truce, both with her homeland and the need to forge a future.
Author Biography:
Faiza Guene was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. She wrote her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies and translation rights around the world. She lives in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris.
'Dreams from the Endz' is the story of twenty-four Ahleme, who is spirited, sassy and wise but has more problems than she knows how to deal with. Her father, The Boss, is permanently disabled after an accident on a building site, her sixteen-year-old brother, Foued, has been permanently excluded from school and seems intent on joining the drug-dealers who share their estate, while she is left to deal with the guilt trips from their family back in Algeria. But when she returns home - after a ten-year absence - she brokers a kind of truce, both with her homeland and the need to forge a future.
Author Biography:
Faiza Guene was born in France in 1985 to Algerian parents. She wrote her first novel, Just Like Tomorrow when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, selling over 360,000 copies and translation rights around the world. She lives in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris.
Autor | Guene, Faiza |
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Ilmumisaeg | 2009 |
Kirjastus | Vintage |
Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
Bestseller | Ei |
Lehekülgede arv | 176 |
Pikkus | 197 |
Laius | 197 |
Keel | English |
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