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001			on1355955689
003			OCoLC
005			20230217123314.0
008			221223s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022042896
020			_a9781250851017 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1250851017 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)on1355955689
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cJPL _dJPL _dIK2 _dIUK _dIH9
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050	0	0	_aPS3552.L3936 _bP53 2023
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223/eng/20220909
100	1		_aBlauner, Peter, _eauthor. _9131659
245	1	0	_aPicture in the sand /
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bMinotaur Books, _c2023.
300			_a340 pages ; _c25 cm
520			_a""On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen King. Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy League university, his middle-class Egyptian-American family is filled with pride and excitement. But that joy turns to shock when they discover that he's run off to the Middle East to join a holy war instead. When he refuses to communicate with everyone else, his loving grandfather Ali emails him one last plea. If Alex will stay in touch, his grandfather will share with Alex - and only Alex - a manuscript containing the secret story of his own life that he's kept hidden from his family, until now. It's the tale of his romantic and heartbreaking past rooted in Hollywood and the post-revolutionary Egypt of the 1950s, when young Ali was a movie fanatic who attained a dream job working for the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille on the set of his epic film, The Ten Commandments. But Ali's vision of a golden future as an American movie mogul gets upended when he is unwittingly caught up in a web of politics, espionage, and real-life events that change the course of history. It's a narrative he's told no one for more than a half-century. But now he's forced to unearth the past to save a young man who's about to make the same tragic mistakes he made so long ago"--
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xProduction and direction _zEgypt _vFiction. _9131660
650		0	_aEgyptian Americans _vFiction. _9131661
650		0	_aGrandparent and child _vFiction. _9131662
650		0	_aCollege students _vFiction. _9131663
650		0	_aFamily secrets _vFiction. _9131664
650		0	_aTerrorism _vFiction. _9131665
651		0	_aEgypt _xHistory _y1952-1970 _vFiction. _9131666
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9131667
655		7	_aThrillers (Fiction) _2lcgft _9131668
655		7	_aEpistolary fiction. _2lcgft _9131669
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _9131670
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