By Fadia Faqir
Timely and lyrical, The Cry of the Dove is the tale of 1 younger lady and an evocative portrait of forbidden love and violated honor in a tradition whose reverberations are felt profoundly in our global this present day. Salma has devoted a criminal offense punishable through demise in her Bedouin tribe of Hima, Levant: she had intercourse out of wedlock and have become pregnant. regardless of the insult it'll devote opposed to her humans, Salma has the kid and unexpectedly reveals herself a fugitive at the run from these trying to fix their honor. Salma is rushed into protecting custody the place her baby is ripped from her fingers, and the place she sits by myself for years earlier than being ushered to protection in England. clear of her Bedouin village, Salma is an asylum-seeker attempting to soften into the group, stressed to re-evaluate her lifestyle. She learns English customs from her landlady and befriends a Pakistani lady who's additionally at the run, with whose aid Salma ultimately forges a brand new id. yet simply as issues settle, the necessity to go back for her misplaced daughter overwhelms her, and one fateful day, Salma hazards every little thing to return and locate her.
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