The Baghdad Clock

In the midst of the first Gulf War, two girls become friends and share an incongruous idealism, tested as they grow older and the international sanctions on their native Iraq intensify. This exciting debut was a bestseller in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE.

About the author

Shahad Al Rawi was born in Baghdad in 1986. She is a writer and novelist. Her first novel The Baghdad Clock went through three printings in the first months of publication. She is currently completing a PhD in Anthropology in Dubai.

Summary

For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE

Product details

• Authors: Shahad Al Rawi
• Assisted by: Luke Leafgren (Translation), Leafgren Luke (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786073242
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-324-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Persian Gulf War (1991)