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008			180514s2019 nyub 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780451494047 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9780451494054 _q(ebook)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aPR9381.9.O98 _bD73 2019
082	0	0	_a823/.92 _223
100	1		_aOwuor, Yvonne Adhiambo, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe dragonfly sea : _ba novel / _cYvonne Adhiambo Owuor.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2019.
300			_a489 pages : _bcolor maps ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aMaps on endpapers.
500			_a"Author of Dust"--Dust jacket.
520			_a"From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana receives what she has long hoped for: a father. But this makeshift family's happiness crumbles as Ayaana grows into adulthood and the threats against her begin to mount: from an Islamic extremist, from the black-clad strangers who kidnap Muhidin's son, from a human trafficker, from the simmering resentments of those around her. So when a contingent of cultural emissaries from China invite Ayaana abroad, she embarks on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will make friends and enemies; be seduced by the mercurial scion of a powerful Turkish business family; be initiated into a world of intrigue and passion and high stakes; and, at last, find understanding where she least expects it. Her one constant remains her devotion to the sea, which pulls her across the globe in search of a place where she can love and be loved. The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent, gloriously told story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610			_aOutcasts _zKenya
610			_aAdventure fiction
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aOwuor, Yvonne Adhiambo, author. _tDragonfly sea _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 _z9780451494054 _w(DLC) 2018023670
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