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Synopsis
An unforgettable tale of food, love and geography. Sirine is thirty-nine. She is half-Iraqi and half-American. Her parents were aid workers who were killed in Africa when she was nine; Sirine was raised in Los Angeles by her Iraqi-born uncle, a professor at the local university and an endless source of fabulous tales of jinns, sheiks and Bedouins. Sirine is a breathtaking golden-haired beauty, and also an exquisitely gifted cook at Cafe Nadia, a Middle Eastern neighbourhood restaurant when homesick ex-pats crowd its tiny tables to drink coffee and savour her perfectly spiced food. Sirine is loved by all, but she has never been in love herself: it's her uncle's dearest wish that she will fall for the dashing new professor in the Near Eastern Studies Department. Hanif Al Eyad, a political exile from Baghdad, longing for home. It is at Cafe Nadia that Sirine and Hanif finally fall in love; their relationship is steeped in the scents, flavours and textures of Sirine's cooking. But Sirine never quite feels that she has been admitted fully to Hanif's life; is she not Arab enough, not Muslim enough, too American? Crescent tells the story of the love affair between Sirine and Hanif, in allBook Details
Published
June 20, 2003
Publisher
Picador
Pages
339
ISBN
9780330413282