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Cooper, Paul M. M.,

All our broken idols / Paul M.M. Cooper. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. - 353 pages : maps ; 24 cm

"Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and her daydreaming brother Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival, as they dodge the beatings of their drunken father and scrabble for scraps of food. One violent evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the beautiful, near-mythical city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king - and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from organised looters, following in the footsteps of her dead father. When she and Salim, a fellow archaeologist, discover an astonishingly beautiful and rare carving, they know their find will bring the world's attention to Mosul. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll to catastrophic, devastating effect when ISIL storm Mosul - and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage."--Publisher.

ISBN: 1408879417 9781408879412 9781408879405 1408879409

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC034010 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 019735675 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Archaeologists--Fiction.
Kidnapping victims--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Iraq--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Action and adventure fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6103.O688 / A65 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.92