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What comes with the dust : a novel / Gharbi M. Mustafa.
As The Kite Runner and The Swallows of Kabuldid for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, this slim, profound novel illuminates the plight of those living under the Islamic State as well as the spirit of the Yazidi people.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781628729474 (hardcover: alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 189 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Arcade edition.
- Publisher: New York : Arcade Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Subject: | Yezidis > Iraq > Crimes against > Fiction. ISIS (Organization) > Fiction. Iraq |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pemberton and District Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pemberton and District Public Library | F MUS (Text) | 31894000517093 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 July #1
Nazo, a Yazidi girl, is on the verge of eloping with Azad when ISIS fighters arrive in their village. The Yazidi villagers, members of a persecuted religious minority, refuse to convert to Islam and are taken captive. Subsequently, many of the men, including Azad, are killed, and the women are trafficked and sold as sex slaves. Nazo flees, only to be repeatedly recaptured. At the same time, Omed, a young admirer of Nazo's, also manages to escape and joins a band of Yazidi fighters that includes a young nurse named Soz. They have formed an alliance with the Kurdish Peshmerga to do battle against the Islamic State. Mustafa, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan who has interviewed Yazidi victims of ISIS, brings the story of the Yazidi people to life for a Western audience in a way that headline-news coverage cannot. His characters struggle to stay alive, but at what price for themselves, their people, and their way of life? Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Voice of Youth Advocates Reviews : VOYA Reviews 2018 August
Mustafa's gripping story set in modern Iraq narrates the brutal hardships of three Yazidi teens entering adulthood under the threat of genocide at the hands of ISIS. The Yazidi are an ancient people that practice their own form of religion and carry genes that give some of their members light skin and hair and blue eyes. They are denounced as devil worshipers and persecuted. Nazo, an eighteen-year-old Yazidi girl in a forbidden relationship with a young teacher at her father's school, is planning to flee with him to seek a new life in Germany. Omed has loved Nazo from afar and has lost his entire family to violence, and to mollify his emotional pain, he has resorted to cutting. Soz, a young woman also affected by the violence of ISIS has joined YBS, a combat resistance unit of the Yazidis. Their three lives are all devastated due to an ISIS attack on their village. Yazidi people are given the option to convert to Islam or be killed. Young women are taken as sexual slaves and forced to marry or be held in servitude to ISIS fighters. Nazo and her eleven-year-old sister are taken hostage and experience rape and violence as they fight for freedom. Omed, left for dead, joins the Yazidi fighters and falls in love with Soz. Nazo, Omed, and Soz all face insurmountable odds to survive. What Comes with Dust is a story that needs to be read, with hope that humanity can overcome the evils it inflicts on one another. Mustafa's storytelling shows the harsh realities of genocide and sexual slavery that have affected the Yazidi people. Unflinching at times, the story does not provide a happy ending, but it hints at the promise of a better future for some of the Yazidi. Recommend this as a complement to The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight against the Islamic State (Penguin Random House, 2017) by Nadia Murad.âAdrienne Amborski. 4Q 3P S NA Copyright 2018 Voya Reviews.
