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'A fresh, amusing and surprising take on London, and on life' The Times
'An exquisitely comic tale of self-reinvention and survival' Guardian
'A wittily sympathetic story about an England that tolerates but never quite accepts exotic foreigners' Sunday Times
As a flight from Dubai comes into London's Heathrow and hits turbulence, four people from different corners of the Arab world are thrown together: beautiful, lost Lamis, recently divorced from her wealthy Iraqi husband; Nicholas, an exper...
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Page Count:
384
ISBN:
8484531155
ISBN13:
9788484531159
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A story of Arabs in London
A book written originally in Arabic, translated into Spanish, that I came across in a London bookstore and had been sat on my bookshelf for 20 years waiting to be read.
The intermingling stories of the Moroccan prostitute Amira, the recently divorced Iraqi Lamis, and the colourful Samir, along with the Englishman Nicholas, after all four cross paths on a flight from Dubai to London.
This book gave an interesting insight into a different side of London life. A bright story with some funny and s