| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
374 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for adventure. In present day London, a young woman, Frieda, returns from a long trip abroad to find a man sleeping outside her front door. She gives him a blanket and a pillow, and in the morning finds the bedding neatly folded and an exquisite drawing of a bird with a long feathery tail, some delicate Arabic writing, and a boat made out of a flock of seagulls on her wall. Tayeb, in flight from his Yemeni homeland, befriends Frieda and, when she learns she has inherited the contents of an apartment belonging to a dead woman she has never heard of, they embark on an unexpected journey together. |
| Subject |
Women missionaries -- Fiction.
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Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Kashi (China) -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781608198115 |
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1608198111 |
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9781408825143 (hardback) |
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1408825147 (hardback) |
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1408825201 (trade paperback) |
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9781408825204 (trade paperback) |
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