The Baghdad clock
Rawi, Shahad Al2018
Book
"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."--Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The Baghdad clock / Shahad al-Rawi ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
Author:
Rawi, Shahad Al, authorLeafgren, Luke, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : Oneworld Publications, 2018.
Collation:
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma, 2016.Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
97817860732289781786073242
Dewey class:
892.737
Language:
EnglishArabic
Subject:
Air raid shelters -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- FictionDreams -- FictionCivil war -- FictionGirls -- FictionFemale friendships -- FictionFriendship -- FictionImagination -- FictionNineteen nineties -- FictionTeenage girls -- Iraq -- FictionPersian Gulf War, 1991 -- FictionBaghdad (Iraq) -- FictionComing-of-age fictionWar fiction
BRN:
53272