EPISODE · May 1, 2021 · 3 MIN
Take What You Can Carry: A Novel by Gian Sardar
from Explore New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women · host jmurphy
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take What You Can Carry: A Novel Author: Gian Sardar Narrator: Vaneh Assadourian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan. It’s 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan’s childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. Yet when the return home proves less safe than Delan believed, Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected, and is awakened to the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military under curfew and constant threat. But in this world torn apart by war, there are intoxicating sights and scents, Delan’s loving family, innocence not yet compromised, and small acts of kindness that flourish unexpectedly. All of it will be tested when Olivia captures a shattering, tragic moment on film, one that upends all their lives and proves that true bravery begins with an open heart.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588662 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take What You Can Carry: A Novel Author: Gian Sardar Narrator: Vaneh Assadourian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An aspiring photographer follows her dreams and faces her fears in a poignant novel about finding beauty, promise, and love amid the chaos of war-torn Kurdistan. It’s 1979. Olivia Murray, a secretary at a Los Angeles newspaper, is determined to become a photojournalist and make a difference with her work. When opportunity arrives, she seizes it, accompanying her Kurdish boyfriend, Delan, to northern Iraq for a family wedding, hoping to capture an image that lands her a job in the photo department. More important, though, the trip is a chance to understand Delan’s childhood and bridge the differences of their pasts. Yet when the return home proves less safe than Delan believed, Olivia is confronted with a reality she had not expected, and is awakened to the dangers of a town patrolled by Iraqi military under curfew and constant threat. But in this world torn apart by war, there are intoxicating sights and scents, Delan’s loving family, innocence not yet compromised, and small acts of kindness that flourish unexpectedly. All of it will be tested when Olivia captures a shattering, tragic moment on film, one that upends all their lives and proves that true bravery begins with an open heart.
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