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PUBLISHED
New York : Grove Press, 2023
EDITION
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition
DESCRIPTION
311 pages : map ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802160669, 0802160662 :, 0802160662, 9780802160669
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who--against the odds and for a brief time--gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice."--Dust jacket flap