Bibliograph

The Baghdad clock, Shahad al-Rāwī ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren

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Label

The Baghdad clock, Shahad al-Rāwī ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Baghdad clock

Oclc number

1035202282

Responsibility statement

Shahad al-Rāwī ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren

Summary

Shortlisted for the international prize for Arabic fiction 2018. For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE. 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. This poignant debut novel will spirit readers away to a world they know only from the television, revealing just what it is like to grow up in a city that is slowly disappearing in front of your eyes, and showing how in the toughest times, children can build up the greatest resilience

Target audience

general

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