Bøger udgivet af Cune Press

Sand Paper Stone is the story of a British man from Liverpool living in London where he works in a decent job, with good friends from different backgrounds, yet as a muslim convert and with a landmark moment in his life approaching he finds himself compelled to embark on his pilgrimage to Mecca.  Despite encountering obstacles at the consulate in London and also on arrival at Jeddah he is taken in as a ‘wayfarer’ by a large extended family who assist in instructing him in the rituals and requirements of attendance at Islam’s holiest shrine and watch on at his astonishment at the scenes that they witness together.  However, just at the moment when he begins to come close to realising the spiritual ambitions of his journey, the practicalities of life invade the peace in the form of what seems petty officialdom and he finds himself launched into a bureaucratic maze, at first trapped in baffling meetings with lofty government ministers and lethargic administrators before finally running alone in the night through an empty terminal onto a runway looking for a plane to Geneva.

"On a brief visit to Cairo to support an investigation her fiancâe, a Jewish American journalist has undertaken, Salma, the protagonist is caught up in the machinations of a new, radical Islamist group with a vendetta against her father that she and her fiancâe must shed light on to protect her family. However, life becomes complicated when an ex-boyfriend preemptively kidnaps her to save her from this self-same Islamist group to which he belongs but is betraying. Chased by both the extremists and her father's soldiers, they take backroads through the country from Cairo to Aswan where Salma is forced to confront the prejudices she didn't know she had in an Egypt she had not known existed"--

The book provides a narrative of hope, manifest in the sincere efforts to bridge the divide between Palestinians and Israelis with one radio station and then between women and men with the other - with music bridging the divide.