My Name Is Salma - Couverture souple

'Exquisitely woven, laced with humour and social awareness' Leila Aboulela, author of The Minaret

When Salma becomes pregnant before marriage in her small village in the Levant, she is swept into prison for her own protection and her new-born baby is snatched away.

As an asylum-seeker in the middle of the most English of towns, Exeter, she rebuilds her life and settles down with an Englishman. But deep in her heart the cries of her baby daughter still echo. She decides to go back to her village to find her.It is a journey that will change everything - and nothing.

'A beautiful book, written in vivid, tender prose, about creating a new world when you have lost everything that matters. Salma is unforgettable' Maggie Gee

'[My Name is Salma] vividly expresses the horror of lives oppressed by archaic patriarchal honour codes' Financial Times

"Fadia Faqir's captivating new novel deals with the timeless themes of unforgiveness, friendship and travel. Exquisitely woven, laced with humour and social awareness, it hums with the futility of erasing the past." (Leila Aboulelah, author of THE MINARET)

"This is a beautiful book, written in vivid, tender prose, about creating a new world when you have lost everything that matters. Salma is an unforgettable character, fierce and loving, veering between self-hatred and a sense of her own strength, touching and funny by terms. Now I have finished the book, I miss her" (MAGGIE GEE)

"Vividly expresses the horror of lives oppressed by archaic patriarchal honour codes" (Financial Times)

"Exquisite ... As Salma's life moves toward its inevitable climax, readers will be transfixed" (US Library Journal)

"Tender and perceptive" (Good Housekeeping)