"This enchanting and eye-opening new novel from Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela follows an embattled young woman coming of age during the Mahdist War in nineteenth-century Sudan, and illuminates the tensions that shape her course: between Britain and Sudan, Christianity and Islam, colonizer and colonized. In River Spirit, Aboulela gives us the unforgettable story of a people who -- against the odds and for a brief time -- gained independence from foreign rule through their willpower, subterfuge, and sacrifice."--Dust jacket flap.
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ISBN:9780802160669 (hardcover)
Physical Description:print 311 pages : map ; 22 cm
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