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The Refugee Ocean

The Refugee Ocean

Toutonghi, Pauls

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ISBN10: 1668007436
ISBN13: 9781668007433
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Oct 3 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked--over time and distance--by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music in this breathtaking and simultaneously heartbreaking (The Montecito Journal) literary historical novel.

Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutounghi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family--and her society--hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Atlantic Ocean. Hoping for a new beginning, she finds revolution and chaos.

Over fifty years later, Naïm Rahil is a teenage refugee from Aleppo, Syria. A former piano prodigy who struggles to thrive in America--and who has lost part of his hand in the war--he dreams of a simple normal life.

Moving from Aleppo on the brink of civil war, to Lebanon in the late 1940s, to Havana during the Cuban Revolution, to the suburbs of Washington, DC, The Refugee Ocean is an exquisite...poignant, and layered novel (Eleanor Shearer, author of River Sing Me Home) about displacement, resilience, and the immigrant experience that grapples with what it means to be an immigrant, shows how wounds can heal, and highlights the role of music and art in the resilience of the human spirit.

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