Washoe County Library System

Follows the course of the life of a Syrian orphan boy named Maïouf whose struggles to attain an education lead him to France and Abu Dhabi, where even his great success can't keep him from being drawn back to the life he thought forgotten. In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the boys powerful father, leaving Maèiouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped...