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Author:

Rāwī, Shahad Al, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oneworld,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

252 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Baghdad (Iraq)--Fiction.
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Civil war--Fiction.
Air raid shelters--Baghdad--Baghdad--Fiction.
Dreams--Fiction.
Imagination--Fiction.
War stories.
Arabic fiction.
Teenage girls--Iraq--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Leafgren, Luke, translator.

Notes:

Originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma, 2016.

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.

ISBN:

1786073242
9781786073242

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035202282

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)

NEPC953 -- Lake Mills Public Library (Lake Mills)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)