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The silent minaret / Ishtiyaq Shukri.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.4.S56 S55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shukri, Ishtyaq, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Islam.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Political culture.
- South African students.
- South Africa.
- England--London.
- South African students--England--London--Fiction.
- Political culture--South Africa--Fiction.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity--Fiction.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Johannesburg : Jacana, 2006.
- Summary:
- Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. A young, missing student's friends try to reconstruct his life as they search for him, looking back to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 and to the expat communities of post-September 11 London. What emerges is a picture of a man insisting on a common humanity and finding ways to unify ideologies even as his world is being divided.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1770092498
- 9781770092495
- OCLC:
- 71239410
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