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Starred Review on July 1, 2017 | Audio
Now older than his 43-year-old father was when he died in a 1977 terrorist attack, Ghobash writes his Letters to his two young sons as a matter of permanent record. As the United Arab Emirates' ambassador to Russia (Ghobash's father was Arab, his mother Russian), the pentalingual Ghobash records from a uniquely broad perspective about being Muslim in a post-9/11 world. He's his own ideal narrator, with traces of his Oxford-educated British accent lending further gravitas for American ears. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More