{"product_id":"i-want-golden-eyes-9781477323359","title":"I Want Golden Eyes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA girl must save herself and her family after discovering her society's secrets in this sci-fi novel in translation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Want Golden Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e is set on the Comoros Islands at the end of this century in a futuristic city called Quartzia, the home of a genetically privileged minority called the Golden Eyes. The rest of the population, the Limiteds, live in a cavity called the Hive beneath the city. Dalia is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in the Hive but works with her family in Quartzia at Professor Adam's house, where she cleans, her sister grows organic food in the garden, and her deaf father works as the cook. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Because books are forbidden in the Hive, Dalia secretly borrows math texts from the professor's library and smuggles them to read in the Hive. When Professor Adam, who is famous for engineering embryos with enhanced genes, discovers Dalia's crime, he enslaves her for two years in his library. Dalia seeks to flee the city with her family after overhearing the professor being ordered to design genetic traits for the president's expected baby and realizes that Golden Eyes are not privileged by nature's selection, as she was led to believe, but by authority and money. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Maria Dadouch is a Syrian novelist, screenwriter, and children's book author. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Planet of Uncertainties\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Want Golden Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart is Behind the Rib\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books, for which she has won several prestigious prizes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marcia Lynx Qualey is a writer, publisher, editor, translator, and speaker. She is the founder of \u003ci\u003eArabLit\u003c\/i\u003e. Her translated works include \u003ci\u003eWild Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWondrous Journeys in Strange Lands\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eThunderbird\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sawad Hussain is a translator from Arabic. She has run translation workshops under the auspices of Shadow Heroes, Africa Writes, Shubbak Festival, the Yiddish Book Center, the British Library, and the National Centre for Writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies Ut-Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181145293074,"sku":"9781477323359","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f48351b-8358-4582-8a5e-f9083ff74b7f.jpg?v=1744391011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-want-golden-eyes-9781477323359","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}