The Dhow House : A Novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNeil, Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Africa.

Terrorism - Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dhow House

Place of Publication:

Montreal : ECW Press, 2017.

Summary:

A lushly imagined novel of passion and terrorism that asks When do we ever really know ourselves? When RebeccaLaurelsonis forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But the gilded lives of her aunt Julia s family and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal. Will she be able to save her newfound family from the violence that encroaches on their seductive lives? Or, amidst growing unrest, will the true reason for her hasty exit from her posting be unmasked? Rebecca finds herself torn between the family she hardly knows and a past she dares not divulge."

Contents:

Front Cover

Table of Contents

Prologue

I - Amani Sunbird

II - Black-Bellied Bustard

III - Red-Chested Cuckoo

IV - Amur Falcon

V - Nubian Nightjar

VI - Augur Buzzard

VII - Hartlaub's Turaco

VII - African Sacred Ibis

IX - Northern Carmine Bee-Eater

Acknowledgements

Short Glossary of Swahili Terms

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781770909977

1770909974

9781770909960

1770909966

OCLC:

959691862