“What would you do if you could do anything in the world?” Theresa Turner’s son asked. Without a moment’s hesitation, she replied that she would teach overseas again. Eight weeks later, she found herself in northern Iraq, spending weekends with a widow’s family in a local village. The Kurdish Bike is a fictionalized narrative of her challenges adapting to a paternalistic society, where women die in “honor killings” and mutilation is commonplace — an unforgettable story told with compassion, humor and grace.
Product Details
- Paperback and e-Book: 324 pages
- Audiobook: 11 hours
- Publisher: Alesa Lightbourne (July 19, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0692758100
- ISBN-13: 978-0692758106 / ASIN: B01IOPBT3Y
- Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
- Languages: English, Sorani Kurdish, Farsi (see below)
- Gold Medal, Best Regional eBook 2017, Independent Publishers Book Awards
- First Place, Best Fiction of 2017, North Street Book Contest
- Bronze Medal, Best Cultural Fiction, Readers’ Favorites 2018
Copies
The Kurdish Bike is available at independent bookstores and online:
- Paperback $16.95 (324 pages), available through Amazon.com, or ask for it at your local book store or public library (distributed through Ingram)
- Kindle / e-book $9.95 online
- Audiobook narrated by the author $21.95 (11 hours), available on Audible.com, Amazon.com or at the iTunes Store.
- Kurdish translation available now in Irbil (Wafayi Bookstore inside Wafayi Park; Sirwan Bookstore beside Machko; Amazon) and in Sulaimanya (Jamal Erfan Cultural Foundation)
- Farsi translation available as PDF
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