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Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.
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Under the Almond Tree, Laura McVeigh
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- Released
- 2017
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- Title
- Under the Almond Tree
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Laura McVeigh
- Publisher
- Two Roads
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 305
- ISBN10
- 1473640849
- ISBN13
- 9781473640849
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Life, Asia, Loss, Journey, Escape, Mourning, Dreams, Afghanistan, Taliban, Kabul
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Fifteen year old Samar, the middle child, shares the story of her incredible journey on the Trans-Siberian Express - with the help of Napoleon, the Ticket Collector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and her parents and siblings. Forced to flee Kabul as the Russians, then the Taliban, turn their lives inside out, the children and their parents face the loss of their world and their place in it.