The Baghdad clock
Rāwī, Shahd2019
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Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again.
Main title:
The Baghdad clock / Shahad Al Rawi ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
Author:
Rāwī, Shahd, authorLeafgren, Luke, translator
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2019.
Collation:
252 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.This translation originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781786074867 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
2516896