The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel Kaldas Pauline
The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel Kaldas Pauline They went to Cairo, leaving behind the adobe houses built along the edge of the Nile and the villagers who all knew each other and who had…
Specifikacia The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel Kaldas Pauline
The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel Kaldas Pauline
They went to Cairo, leaving behind the adobe houses built along the edge of the Nile and the villagers who all knew each other and who had lived on this land for more centuries than their names could count. His decision to leave his ancestral village of Kom Ombo despite his parents' objections reverberates across generations, kicking off a series of migrations that shape the lives of his family and their descendants throughout the decades that follow. Behind them, they left the imprint of their footsteps for others who might follow.This family saga begins when Salim, the eldest of three brothers, moves to Cairo at the start of the twentieth century with dreams of opening his own bakery.
These migrations only intensify after the revolution of 1952--with Misha, Salim's eldest grandchild, being the first to flee to "Amreeka," his annual phone calls home becoming briefer and
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