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Title The Baghdad clock / Shahad Al Rawi ; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.
Publisher London : Oneworld, 2018.
Copyright ©2018
Description 252 pages ; 23 cm


Note "A novel"--Cover.
"First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2018" -- title page verso.
NOTE "Originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma, 2016" -- title page verso.
Translated from the Arabic.
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.
Subject Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Civil war -- Fiction.
Air raid shelters -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction.
Genre Arabic fiction.
War fiction.
Add'l Names Leafgren, Luke, translator.
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