Zeyn Joukhadar Bücher

Ein Roman, der in der Hoffnungslosigkeit von Krieg und Flucht das Leben feiert Sommer 2011. Nour ist als Kind syrischer Einwanderer in New York geboren. Als ihr Vater stirbt, beschließt Nours Mutter, in ihre Heimat Syrien zurückzugehen. Doch das Syrien, das Nours Eltern noch kannten, gibt es nicht mehr. Schon bald erreicht der Krieg auch das ruhige Stadtviertel von Homs, in dem die Familie lebt. Als ihr Haus von einer Granate zerstört wird, fällt die Entscheidung, das Land zu verlassen. Ziel ist Spanien, und der Weg wird die Familie durch Jordanien, Ägypten, Libyen, Algerien und Marokko führen. Auf der Suche nach Trost und Ablenkung erzählt sich Nour während der Flucht die Fabel von Rawiya, einer jungen Abenteurerin, die sich im 12. Jahrhundert dem berühmten Kartografen al-Idrisi anschließt, um die Kunst des Kartenzeichnens zu erlernen. Viele Orte, die Rawiya durchreist, liegen auf der Route von Nour und ihrer Familie. Damals wie heute lauert Gefahr. Bis Nours Mutter vor einer Entscheidung steht, die die Familie für immer auseinanderreißen könnte.

"From the author of the acclaimed and award-winning debut The Map of Salt and Stars, a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each evening. The only time he feels truly free is when he slips out at night to paint murals on buildings in the once-thriving Manhattan neighborhood known as Little Syria. One night, he finds the tattered journal of a Syrian American artist named Laila Z. She famously and mysteriously disappeared more than sixty years before, but her journal contains proof that Laila Z's past is intimately tied to his mother's-and his grandmother's--in ways he never could have expected. Even more surprising, Laila Z's story reveals the histories of queer and transgender people within his community that he never knew. Following his mother's ghost, he uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along. The Thirty Names of Night is an imaginative and intimate exploration of how we all search for and ultimately embrace who we are"--.

"In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father's spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story--the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker. But the Syria Nour's parents knew is changing, and it isn't long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour's house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety--along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world"--Amazon.com.