House of Salt
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On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma read the girl's future in a cup of coffee grounds. She saw the unstable life of Alia and her children, but also the travel and luck. That day, she kept these prophecies in her heart. However, when the Six-Day War broke out in 1967 and the entire family was forced to move away, the prophecies came true one by one. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother is drawn into a world of political militarization and cannot escape; Alia and her gentle husband live in Kuwait, give birth to three children, and have no choice but to start a new life. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Alia and her family once again lost their home, land, and the life they once knew, and fled to Boston, Paris, Beirut... The children started their own families and continued to carefully deal with the troubles caused by cultural differences in a foreign country...
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