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02903aam a2200481 i 4500 001 A623B012F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240405010125 008 230127s2023 mau 000 f eng 010 $a 2023003707 020 $a 1623717906 020 $a 9781623717902 035 $a (OCoLC)1373237663 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d DGU $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ara 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-iq--- 050 00 $a PJ7932.I85 $b A9913 2023 082 00 $a 892.7/37 $2 23/eng/20230316 084 $a FIC032000 $a FIC032000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a HiÌtiÌ, Zuhayr, $e author. 240 10 $a AyyaÌm al-turaÌb. $l English 245 14 $a The Baghdad villa / $c Zuheir El-Hetti ; translated by Samira Kawar. 264 1 $a Northampton, Massachusetts : $b Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc. $c 2023. 300 $a 224 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "A young Iraqi woman watches her family life collapse amid the country's political turmoil, turning to the seven world-famous paintings hanging in her family's Baghdad villa to make sense of the chaos around her. A work of translated fiction written by an award-winning Iraqi writer and journalist.The novel is set in Baghdad following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein and unleashed chaos. At the center of the narrative is a young woman, Ghosnelban, who belongs to what would have been an aristocratic family under the former Iraqi monarchy and sees herself and her family as guardians of an aristocratic code of noble values and traditions. She witnesses her world and family life collapsing as the violence around her intensifies.The story encompasses three generations of the same family, and shows the effects of successive coups and wars on Iraqi society by focusing on the uprooting of a well-established family that has deep roots in Iraq. Ghosnelban interprets the events unfolding around her through detailed descriptive analysis of seven paintings hanging on the walls of a formal reception room in the family's palatial villa. The family's fate embodies the wider ruination affecting the country at large"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Baghdad (Iraq) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z Baghdad $z Baghdad $v Fiction. 650 6 $a Femmes $z Bagdad $z Bagdad $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 7 $a FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / War & Military. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Women $2 fast 651 7 $a Iraq $z Baghdad $2 fast 655 7 $a Fiction $2 fast 655 7 $a Novels $2 fast 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf 700 1 $a Kawar, Samira, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024520.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A623B012F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search