When Jina a Kurdish poet escapes her oppressive homeland in Western Iran, she takes her beloved’s birthday gift – “Girl with the Pearl Earring” translated into Farsi – with her on a journey to seek political asylum in Australia. Chancing upon a community library, the invitation to ‘take a book, leave a book’ forges a poignant connection between her new landscape and the home she has left behind.
Sweetness in the Belly
2019
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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
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Romancing the Stone
1984
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The Secret of Moonacre
2009
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972
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Queen of the Desert
2015
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Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
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Godmothered
2020
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Before I Fall
2017
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The Sheik
1921
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