Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?
Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?
Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault are everyday occurrences and the struggle to survive has suffocated the joy out of life for most. But when he begins to clean out his bookshop of forty years to leave his city in search of somewhere safer, he comes across the story of Ali, the Gardener of Baghdad, Adnan rediscovers through a memoir handwritten by the gardener decades ago that beauty, love and hope can still exist, even in the darkest corners of the world.
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Two People, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?
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One of the best books I've read
Absolutely beautiful story. As another reviewer said, this rivals a Nicholas Sparks novel. This is now one of my favorites. Its about Baghdad (and environs) in the 1950's and the present time. The characters, history, and settings come alive. I'm honestly at a loss as to how to review this except to say that it was amazing.
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