![]() ![]() Then Najwa meets Tamer, the intense, lonely younger brother of her employer. Soon orphaned, she finds solace and companionship within the Muslim community. ![]() ![]() But a coup forces the young woman and her family into political exile in London. An upperclass Westernized Sudanese, her dreams were to marry well and raise a family. Twenty years ago, Najwa, then at university in Khartoum, would never have imagined that one day she would be a maid. With her Muslim hijab and down-turned gaze, Najwa is invisible to most eyes, especially to the rich families whose houses she cleans in London. Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman-once privileged and secular in her native land and now impoverished in London-gradually embracing her orthodox faith. Summary “A beautiful, daring, challenging novel” of a young Muslim immigrant-from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, The Translator (The Guardian). ![]()
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