# The Locust and the Bird

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- Book: [The Locust and the Bird](https://www.bookquiver.com/hanan-al-shaykh/the-locust-and-the-bird) ([The Locust and the Bird.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hanan-al-shaykh/the-locust-and-the-bird.md))
- Authors: [Hanan al-Shaykh](https://www.bookquiver.com/hanan-al-shaykh)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-0747-231-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2010-04-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a masterly act of literary transformation, celebrated novelist Hanan al-Shaykh re-creates the dramatic life and times of her mother, Kamila. Married at a young age against her will, Kamila soon...