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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dragonfly sea
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Domestic fiction.
  genre: Bildungsromans.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 489 pages : map ; 25 cm
  abstract: A vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana receives what she has long hoped for: a father. But this makeshift family's happiness crumbles as Ayaana grows into adulthood and the threats against her begin to mount: from an Islamic extremist, from the black-clad strangers who kidnap Muhidin's son, from a human trafficker, from the simmering resentments of those around her. So when a contingent of cultural emissaries from China invite Ayaana abroad, she embarks on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she will make friends and enemies; be seduced by the mercurial scion of a powerful Turkish business family; be initiated into a world of intrigue and passion and high stakes; and, at last, find understanding where she least expects it. Her one constant remains her devotion to the sea, which pulls her across the globe in search of a place where she can love and be loved. The Dragonfly Sea is a transcendent, gloriously told story of adventure, fraught choices, and of the inexorable need for shelter in a dangerous world"--
  note: by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor.
  note: Map on endpapers.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ke---
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Families
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: Kenya
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Island life
    geographic: Kenya
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Outcasts
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Kenyans
    geographic: China
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    geographic: China
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Voyages and travels
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9381.9.O98 D73 2019
  classification: 823/.92
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Dragonfly sea
    name:
      name part: Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2018023670
  identifier: 9780451494047
  identifier: 0451494040
  identifier: 2018020711
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180514
    record change date: 20190718163018.0
    record identifier: in00004058911
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng