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Shades of Integrity by Berna Boran tells the story of a teenager and his hard-working Muslim family who grew up in the Middle East and are now adapting to living in Dublin.

Salman is a young man who was unwittingly drawn into a crime that is abhorrent to his good nature. It would also be abhorrent to the culture and traditions of his hard-working Muslim parents if they knew about it.

His dark secret troubles him as he does work-experience in a prestigious law firm. He worries about the consequences of his actions. Meanwhile his sister Amina has fallen in love. How can she defy her parents as they arrange a marriage for her? A small-time criminal named Mamdua has an opportunity to use Salman and his friend Zak in exacting revenge on a former girlfriend who has jeopardised his links to the Russian mafia.

Out of the blue, Malaki, who has spent many years of fighting in the Middle East, turns up in Dublin. His past, and what he has seen and experienced, haunts him.

“A delightful unusual debut novel by an Irish author on a subject of international modern importance related with a real insight at a single family level with humour and understanding”.

Kieran Colgan

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