Above us the Milky Way : an illuminated alphabet
(2020)
By:
Karimi, Fowzia
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/KARIMI,F
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, 2020
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 415 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781646050024, 1646050029 :, 1646050029, 9781646050024
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything and everyone beloved and familiar. Old family photographs and the author's own lush watercolor paintings inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories, stories of the war dead, and fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration and immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love and wonder amidst destruction and loss, and how to create beauty out of horror."--