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      Only in London

      by Hanan Al-Shaykh
      Published
      Oct 2001
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      288
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      Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn't fully understand. Once safely on British soil, Lamis and Nicholas fall in love, Samir chases after blond British youths, and Amira reinvents herself as a princess, the better to lure clients at the best London hotels. Through the city and across cultural borders, Only in London wittily portrays the smells, sounds, and sights of London's lively Arab neighorhoods, as well as the freedoms the city both offers and withholds from its immigrants.

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      Aug 2002 Bloomsbury (UK) ISBN13 9780747557920 ISBN10 0747557926
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      Oct 2002 Anchor ISBN13 9780385721219 ISBN10 0385721218
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      First Edition Oct 2001 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780375421334 ISBN10 0375421335
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      Mar 2000 Nan A. Talese ISBN13 9780385491716 ISBN10 0385491719
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307427137 ISBN10 0307427137
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      Dec 2007 Anchor ISBN10 B000XU4SVY
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