Paperback Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile Book

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ISBN: 1400075254

ISBN13: 9781400075256

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

By Gillian Cookson, Graham R. Potts, Christine M. Newman

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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 wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life's joys. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1400075254

ISBN13:9781400075256

Release Date:May 2003

Publisher:Knopf Publishing Group

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

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Rated 4 stars
Great diarist and really funny, wry tone

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 20, 2005

I'd like to point out in case the other reviews don't really flag this - Nuha Al-Radi is a really funny writer with a great, sardonic style. She's a well-connected, aristocratic Iraqi woman who lives in a devastated country and while the bombs fall she potters about her studio worrying about her kilns. She eventually had to sell them for money (to Saddam's people, who used them as pizza ovens!) She has a great eye for the...

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Rated 5 stars
Day to day llife in Iraq over a decade

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 29, 2004

Eye witness account of events in Baghdad by an Iraqi artist, Nuha Al-Radi kept diaries over a period of about 10 years beginning with the 1991 war, covering the period of sanctions, her own periods away from Iraq, and ending in March 2003 when the current occupation was about to begin. Though the book flows easily and is often humorous, she is not really a great writer, much of her day to day descriptions are quite mundane...

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