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Sweetness in the Belly

Camilla Gibb

Paperback | Pages: 338 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 8281 Users | 686 Reviews

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Original Title:	Sweetness in the Belly
ISBN:	0143038729 (ISBN13: 9780143038726)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lilly, Aziz, Amina
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2005), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Traduction (2009), Trillium Book Award (2006)

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Like Brick Lane and The Kite Runner, Camilla Gibb's widely praised new novel is a poignant and intensely atmospheric look beyond the stereotypes of Islam. After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco. As a young woman she goes on pilgrimage to Harar, Ethiopia, where she teaches Qur'an to children and falls in love with an idealistic doctor. But even swathed in a traditional headscarf, Lilly can't escape being marked as a foreigner. Forced to flee Ethiopia for England, she must once again confront the riddle of who she is and where she belongs.

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Title	:	Sweetness in the Belly
Author	:	Camilla Gibb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 338 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2007 by Penguin Books (first published March 29th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Historical. Historical Fiction. Canada. Eastern Africa. Ethiopia. Religion

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Ratings: 3.9 From 8281 Users | 686 Reviews

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I really liked this book. Very readable; immerses you into Lilly's world of poverty, war, and exile. Despite these depressing topics- this story uplifts as Lilly rises above her circumstances. I recommend this book to everyone- its truly wonderfully written!

"Sweetness in the Belly" is about a young women whose parents were English and Irish hippies who left her orphaned at a very young age due to their death. She then stayed with a family friend in Morocco, a priest who taught her, the Muslim religion. From growing up she did not have friends and all she did was study the Quran. But finally around the age of sixteen she was sent to live on her own and to seek shelter from the religious leader of Harar. But since she was a foreigner and did not look

The language is beautiful, the descriptions of the culture and landscape are intense, even her depiction of the main character's feelings in memorizing the Qur'an is, to me, a Muslim, a mind opener. But...The Islam in her book is not the real Islamic teaching. It's heavily mixed with cultural traditions, but still labeled 'Islam'. I can imagine the readers say "Oh, now I know more about Islam' but are actually misled. True, it's not Miss Gibbs responsiblity (why would you learn about a religion

Sweetness in the Belly is the moving and heart-warming story of Lilly Abdal. Told in her own words, it adds to it a special liveliness, directness and authenticity. Camilla Gibb has succeeded in creating a rich and detailed account of the life of a young woman caught between cultures and identities. It is also a love story at different levels. Her narrative alternates between periods during the four dramatic years in Ethiopia and those during ten years in London, after leaving Ethiopia in 1974,

Lilly is the only child of a couple of wandering, hippy English parents: "born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, weaned in Corsica, freed from nappies in Sicily and walking by the time we got to the Algarve." In Morocco, she's left in the care of the Great Abdal while her parents go jaunting, only to learn she is suddenly an orphan. Raised by the Great Abdal, a muslim Sheikh, and Mohammed Bruce Mahmoud, a "fiery-haired" ex-British Muslim convert, she found that "once I was led into the

While sometimes uneven, an insightful, sensitive and lyrical entree into Ethiopia through the interactions of a British-Muslim convert and her host culture in 1960s and 70s Muslim Harar. Alternating between refugee life in Britain and evocative memories of a life once-lived, a time of stabliity replaced by political change under the waning years of Haile Selassie, the orchestrated deceit of media and the lustre of innnocent socialist promise in the wake of dictatorial reign, the book is as

As someone with very little knowledge of Ethiopia I appreciated this book enormously not only for it's educational value but also for the compelling stories of refugees and the struggles they face trying to build new lives. Novels that manage to weave compelling characters with a depth of cultural and historical information are like gems along my reading journey for they expand my world well beyond what a dry reading of any assortment of texts or articles on the issues could ever hope to do.