Sisters in War
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq
Caught up in a terrifying war, facing choices of life and death, two Iraqi sisters take us into the hidden world of women's lives under U.S. occupation. Through their powerful story of love and betrayal, interwoven with the stories of a Palestinian American women's rights activist and a U.S. soldier, journalist Christina Asquith explores one of the great untold sagas of the Iraq war: the attempt to bring women's rights to Iraq, and the consequences for all those involved.On the heels of the invasion, twenty-two-year-old Zia accepts a job inside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, trusting that democracy will shield her burgeoning romance with a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-58836-761-7
- EAN: 9781588367617
- Produktnummer: 15715153
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'204 KB
Über den Autor
Christina Asquith was born in New York City and was educated at Boston University and the London School of Economics. A journalist for more than a decade, she has written for The New York Times, The Economist, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Guardian, and she was a staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives with her husband and their daughter in Burlington, Vermont.
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