TY - BOOK AU - Joukhadar, Zeyn. AU - Zeyn Joukhadar. TI - The Map of Salt & Stars SN - 9781474606776 U1 - 813.6 JOU PY - 2019/// CY - , London PB - : The Orion Publishing group KW - Fiction KW - American Fiction KW - Novels N2 - In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across the Levant and North Africa in search of safety. 800 years before, Rawiya, disguised as a boy and apprenticed to a famous map maker, set out on an epic quest to chart the globe, following the very same route. In The Map of Salt & Stars, the tales of these two heroines coming of age in perilous times interweave, and shine a light on a country in turmoil, human resilience and the power of stories ER -