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The Convert
Deborah Baker
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Description for The Convert
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 334.
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is both a gripping story of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the roots of terror in our age of ... Read more
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is both a gripping story of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the roots of terror in our age of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
MN, United States
ISBN
9781555976279
SKU
V9781555976279
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Ref
99-15
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