Elizabeth Loudon
A Stranger in Baghdad : A Novel Hardcover Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 SHARJAH AWARD FOR THE BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION NAMED ONE OF 51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD "A stirring novel about a family."World Literature Today An intergenerational drama rendered in beautiful prose featuring the struggles of a mother and daughter to navigate as outsidersin Baghdad and LondonWho would be charmed by tales of life in the beautiful old house on the banks of the Tigrislooted now no doubt, its shutters torn and the courtyard strewn with mattresses?One night in 2003, AngloIraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad has a surprise visitor to her London office, an old acquaintance Duncan Claybourne. But why has he come? Will his confession finally lay bare what happened to her family before they escaped Iraq? Their stories begin in 1937, when Monas mother Diane, a lively Englishwoman newly married to Ibrahim, an ambitious Iraqi doctor, meets Duncan by chance. Diane is working as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family. Duncan is a young British Embassy officer in Baghdad. When the king dies in a mysterious accident, Ibrahim and his family suspect Diane of colluding with Duncan and the British.Summoning up the vanished world of midtwentiethcentury Baghdad, Elizabeth Loudons richly evocative story of one family calls into question British attitudes and policies in Iraq and offers up a penetrating reflection on crosscultural marriage and the lives of women caught between different worlds.
Binding: Hardcover;446 pages; Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; Classification: F; Weight: 840 g; Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 36
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WINNER OF THE 2024 SHARJAH AWARD FOR THE BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION NAMED ONE OF 51 FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS) LONGLISTED FOR THE BRIDPORT NOVEL AWARD "A stirring novel about a family."World Literature Today An intergenerational drama rendered in beautiful prose featuring the struggles of a mother and daughter to navigate as outsidersin Baghdad and LondonWho would be charmed by tales of life in the beautiful old house on the banks of the Tigrislooted now no doubt, its shutters torn and the courtyard strewn with mattresses?One night in 2003, AngloIraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad has a surprise visitor to her London office, an old acquaintance Duncan Claybourne. But why has he come? Will his confession finally lay bare what happened to her family before they escaped Iraq? Their stories begin in 1937, when Monas mother Diane, a lively Englishwoman newly married to Ibrahim, an ambitious Iraqi doctor, meets Duncan by chance. Diane is working as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family. Duncan is a young British Embassy officer in Baghdad. When the king dies in a mysterious accident, Ibrahim and his family suspect Diane of colluding with Duncan and the British.Summoning up the vanished world of midtwentiethcentury Baghdad, Elizabeth Loudons richly evocative story of one family calls into question British attitudes and policies in Iraq and offers up a penetrating reflection on crosscultural marriage and the lives of women caught between different worlds.
Binding: Hardcover;446 pages; Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; Classification: F; Weight: 840 g; Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 36
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