![]() ![]() ![]() Qamar’s parents die and a prince with many wives wants to marry her. Then, in 1001 Nights style, this tale moves into another. ![]() Qamar’s mother must solve the mystery of why only boys are born in this odd, conservative village. The story begins hundreds of years ago, when our hero-Qamar-is born as an outcast, at the foot of a mountain in Palestine, near her father’s strange, isolated village. Sonia Nimr’s award-winning Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands is a richly imagined feminist-fable-plus-historical-novel that tells an episodic travel narrative, like that of the great 14th century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta, through the eyes of a clever and irrepressible young Palestinian woman. AN ADVENTURE-FILLED HISTORICAL-FOLKLORIC NOVEL ABOUT A PALESTINIAN GIRL WHO DEVELOPS GREAT HEALING SKILLS AND TRAVELS AROUND THE REGION, SOMETIMES DRESSED AS A MAN ![]()
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