Author: Jennifer Zynab Maccani
- Fiction
- Nube de Tinta
- ISBN: 9788416588374
- Release Date: 03-19-2019
Synopsis
Un viaje, ochocientos años de diferencia, dos protagonistas: Nour, una refugiada siria que busca seguridad, y Rawiya, una aventurera medieval, aprendiz de un cartógrafo legendario. Es el verano de 2011, y Nour acaba de perder a su padre por cáncer. Su madre, una cartógrafa que crea mapas inusuales pintados a mano, decide trasladar a Nour y sus hermanas de Nueva York a Siria para estar más cerca de su familia. Pero el país está cambiando, y no pasa mucho tiempo antes de que las protestas y los bombardeos amenacen su tranquilo vecindario. Cuando una bomba destruye la casa de Nour y casi le quita la vida, ella y su familia se ven obligados a elegir: quedarse y arriesgarse a más violencia o huir como refugiados a través de siete países del Medio Oriente y el Norte de África en busca de seguridad. A medida que su viaje se vuelve cada vez más difícil, el hogar de Nour se convierte en un sueño que ella lucha por recordar.
This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit alive as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever.
