Married To A Bedouin

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9781844082209
  • 05 november 2009
  • 279 pagina's
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Marguerite van Geldermalsen

Marguerite van Geldermalsen, kind van Nederlandse ouders uit respectievelijk Rotterdam en 's Gravesande, groeide op in Nieuw-Zeeland. Na haar studie verpleegkunde ging ze samen met een vriendin op wereldreis, een reis die hen ook naar Jordanië bracht. In 1978 trouwde ze er met Mohammad Abdallah, met wie ze drie kinderen kreeg. Sinds het overlijden van haar man in 2002 woont Marguerite van Geldermalsen afwisselend in Petra en in Nieuw-Zeeland. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Marguerite van Geldermalsen, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Marguerite van Geldermalsen.

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' Where you staying? the Bedouin asked. Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave? ' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancient cave and learning to love the regular tasks of baking shrak bread on an open fire and collecting water from the spring. And as Marguerite feels herself becoming part of the Bedouin community, she is thankful for the twist in fate that has led her to this contented life. Marguerite's light-hearted and guileless observations of the people she comes to love are as heart-warming as they are valuable, charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world.

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Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
05 november 2009
Aantal pagina's
279
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Hoofdillustrator
Anthony Lewis
Tweede Illustrator
Anthony Lewis
Hoofduitgeverij
Little, Brown Book Group

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126 mm
Product hoogte
32 mm
Product lengte
197 mm
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Verpakking breedte
112 mm
Verpakking hoogte
26 mm
Verpakking lengte
193 mm
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467 g

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  • The future looked bright

    The future looked bright

    I meet the author Marguerite van Geldermalsen (Dutch name, makes me like her all the more) in Petra – Jordan - were every now and then she attends to a souvenir shop were among many other things her book is for sale. Every inch an English lady by now - alto she is born in New Zealand – I asked her to sign a copy of her book for my daughters.

    Why, do I want my daughters to marry a Bedouin?
    No, not at all, as a concerned father I would even advise against it strongly.
    I like my daughters to read the book because Marguerite makes her own choice, creates her own life and is happy with it. So I hope my daughters will do, follow their own choices, making their own mistakes, not minding to much about what other people may think or say.
    Like Marguerite, from a nurse in New Zealand, to pogoing before a stage where The Clash preforms in England, to marring a Bedouin in Jordan to a mother of three children. All in a personal, sort of ‘happy go lucky’ way of her own.

    Next to that the book is a very personal account of integrating in another culture, without losing yourself in the process of doing so. Perhaps even becoming closer to yourself.

    Definitively an interesting read in many ways.

    And also a very positive read, I love books how end with; ‘The future looked bright’ and epilogues how finish like this; ‘…, I have become a nomad once again’ as we all are of cours.

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