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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/norwich-area-book-club-the-beekeepe
 r-of-aleppo-a-novel/
SUMMARY:Norwich Area Book Club: The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel
DESCRIPTION:Want to meet other book enthusiasts in Norwich? This book club 
 features reads related to personal growth and experience. Join us in Novem
 ber to read "The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel " by Christy Lefteri .\nFrom
  the jacket: "Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra\, his wife\, is an artist. Morn
 ings\, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his h
 ives in the countryside. On weekends\, Afra sells her colorful landscape p
 aintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life\, rich in family 
 and friends\, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo—until 
 the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war\, Nuri kno
 ws they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will
  be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight\, leaving Nuri to navigate her g
 rief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an unc
 ertain future in Britain.\nNuri is sustained only by the knowledge that wa
 iting for them is his cousin Mustafa\, who has started an apiary in Yorksh
 ire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel th
 rough a broken world\, they must confront not only the pain of their own u
 nspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. A
 bove all\, they must make the difficult journey back to each other\, a pat
 h once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement.\
 nMoving\, intimate\, and beautifully written\, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is 
 a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peacef
 ul and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brin
 gs a journey in faraway lands close to home\, never to be forgotten."\nThe
  first 10 people to register will be able to pick up a complimentary copy 
 of the book. Register Today!
CATEGORIES:Arab,Arab American,Arab Author,Arabic Event,Book Club,Book
 Talk,Books,Books/Literature,culture,Syrian,Syrian Children,Syrian Civil
 War
LOCATION:Westside Branch\, 444 West Main Street\, Norwich\, CT\, United Sta
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