Women on a Journey - Between Baghdad and London

Klappentext Weaving between the women's memories of Iraq- nostalgic and nightmarish- and their lives as exiles in London, Zangana's novel gives voice to the richness and complexity of Iraqi women's experiences. Through their stories, the novel represents a powerful critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West. Zusammenfassung A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women's experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace. It represents a critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West.

Product details

• Authors: Haifa Zangana
• Assisted by: Judy Cumberbatch (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780292714847
• ISBN: 978-0-292-71484-7
• No. of pages: 255
• Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series; Modern Middle East Literature; CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation; CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation; Cmes Modern Middle East Litera
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography