Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Russian From the author of The

From the author of The Arab Predicament and Dream Palace of the Arabs comes a beautiful and haunting memoir of growing up in Lebanon in the '50s and '60s--the story of a sensitive young man and budding intellectual caught between tradition and modernity

Her style is passionate

But on the morning Avery plans to jump into the river near her college campus

Paired with a fledgling roc named Zahra

The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Russian From the author of TheWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heart wrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched by her pride. Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put