The Resource A pure heart, Rajia Hassib
A pure heart, Rajia Hassib
Resource Information
The item A pure heart, Rajia Hassib represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item A pure heart, Rajia Hassib represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family. Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing. When Rose returns to Egypt after the bombing, she sifts through the artifacts Gameela left behind, desperate to understand how her sister came to die, and who she truly was. Soon, Rose realizes that Gameela has left many questions unanswered. Why had she quit her job just a few months before her death and not told her family? Who was she romantically involved with? And how did the religious Gameela manage to keep so many secrets? Rich in depth and feeling, A Pure Heart is a brilliant portrait of two Muslim women in the twenty-first century, and the decisions they make in work and love that determine their destinies. As Rose is struggling to reconcile her identities as an Egyptian and as a new American, she investigates Gameela's devotion to her religion and her country. The more Rose uncovers about her sister's life, the more she must reconcile their two fates, their inextricable bond as sisters, and who should and should not be held responsible for Gameela's death. Rajia Hassib's A Pure Heart is a stirring and deeply textured novel that asks what it means to forgive, and considers how faith, family, and love can unite and divide us"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525560050
- Label
- A pure heart
- Title
- A pure heart
- Statement of responsibility
- Rajia Hassib
- Subject
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- trueIdentity
- Self-perception
- Sibling rivalry
- Sisters
- Sisters -- Death
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueSuicide bombings
- Women
- trueWomen -- Egypt
- trueWomen archaeologists
- Arab Spring, 2010-
- trueCairo, Egypt
- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueDeath of sisters
- Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013 -- Fiction
- trueEgyptian-Americans
- trueEgyptologists
- Families -- Fiction
- Husband and wife
- Identity (Psychology)
- Muslim women
- trueNew York City
- trueSecrets
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family. Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing. When Rose returns to Egypt after the bombing, she sifts through the artifacts Gameela left behind, desperate to understand how her sister came to die, and who she truly was. Soon, Rose realizes that Gameela has left many questions unanswered. Why had she quit her job just a few months before her death and not told her family? Who was she romantically involved with? And how did the religious Gameela manage to keep so many secrets? Rich in depth and feeling, A Pure Heart is a brilliant portrait of two Muslim women in the twenty-first century, and the decisions they make in work and love that determine their destinies. As Rose is struggling to reconcile her identities as an Egyptian and as a new American, she investigates Gameela's devotion to her religion and her country. The more Rose uncovers about her sister's life, the more she must reconcile their two fates, their inextricable bond as sisters, and who should and should not be held responsible for Gameela's death. Rajia Hassib's A Pure Heart is a stirring and deeply textured novel that asks what it means to forgive, and considers how faith, family, and love can unite and divide us"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hassib, Rajia
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sisters
- Families
- Egypt
- Label
- A pure heart, Rajia Hassib
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525560050
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2018060355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1065918198
- on1065918198
- OCoLC
- Label
- A pure heart, Rajia Hassib
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 305 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525560050
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2018060355
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)1065918198
- on1065918198
- OCoLC
Subject
- trueIdentity
- Self-perception
- Sibling rivalry
- Sisters
- Sisters -- Death
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueSuicide bombings
- Women
- trueWomen -- Egypt
- trueWomen archaeologists
- Arab Spring, 2010-
- trueCairo, Egypt
- Christian fiction
- Christian fiction
- trueDeath of sisters
- Egypt -- History -- Protests, 2011-2013 -- Fiction
- trueEgyptian-Americans
- trueEgyptologists
- Families -- Fiction
- Husband and wife
- Identity (Psychology)
- Muslim women
- trueNew York City
- trueSecrets
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