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Not Heaven but Paradise : A Novel

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The son of a Spanish mother and an American father who claimed to have worked for the CIA, Paul Stewart lives in his family home, a carmen in the Albaicín district of Granada. The house, which surrounds a lush courtyard, has foundations that date from Spain's Islamic era and has been in the family for generations. Struggling to make ends meet, Paul has turned the carmen into an artist's residency that caters primarily to American artists. The only current guests are Simone, a celebrity painter with a sexualized reputation, and an asylum-seeking Algerian professor who is the subject of a fatwa. Paul has been forced to take him in. An African refugee named Blessed, who's been displaced by the arrival of the professor, suffers a crisis of both body and faith as a result. The relationship between Simone and Paul begins to complicate matters, and suspicions about everybody abound. Murky pasts and private agendas collide with avowed intentions—including those of the U.S....
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18390490
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Unbridled Books
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781609531546
ISBN:
9781609531539, 9781609531522, 9781609531546

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