Tamara Chalabi

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace

The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

Buch

Just ten days after Baghdad’s fall in 2003, Tamara Chalabi arrived in the city after a lifetime in exile—finally entering the homeland she’d known only through stories and her own imagination. Investigating four generations of her family’s history at the forefront of Iraqi society, Chalabi offers a rich portrait of Middle Eastern life and a provocative look at a lost Iraq. Unforgettable characters provide glimpses of the end of the Ottoman Empire, the birth of the Iraqi state, the flowering of “the Paris of the Middle East,” and Iraq’s descent into chaos. At once intimate and magisterial, Chalabi’s memoir of return and reclamation vividly cap… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-124040-9
EAN: 9780061240409
Produktnummer: 11509467
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.7 cm 334 g
Gewicht: 334

Über den Autor

Tamara Chalabi holds a PhD in history from Harvard University. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Slate, and The Sunday Times, among other publications.