Baghdad Diaries A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile

Name: Baghdad Diaries A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile
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ISBN: 9781400075256

ISBN-10: 1400075254

ISBN-13: 9781400075256

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nuha al-Radi, Nuha Al-Radi

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In this often moving, sometimes wry account of life in Baghdad during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following, Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it, where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family for meals and other occasions, happy and sad. In the…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English