Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq - Softcover

Tatchell, Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340897481 ISBN 13: 9780340897485

Verlag: Sceptre, 2006

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A moving personal tale of family life and love torn apart by persecution and destruction under a crude regime. The story shines through, engrossing in its horror, doubly powerful for the knowledge that a happy ending is still far away. - Financial Times 'Such an extraordinary story deserves an extraordinary writer and thankfully it has Jo Tatchell. She puts you perfectly in the place, and her pacey, page-turner narrative would shame most thriller writers. A staggering, unmissable achievement.' - John Harding, Daily Mail

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THE FAMILY YASIN is an epic true story of one family s experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and as a young man became famous for it. But by the end of the 1970s Saddam's rise to power was encroaching on his life, and that of his family. Nabeel's brothers were arrested and he himself was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980. THE FAMILY YASIN tells his story, and that of the family that he left behind; his matriarch of a mother Sabria, his four brothers and their rebellion against Saddam's regime, and his two sisters - all ordinary people living in extraordinary and difficult times. The book takes us from the happier, pre-Saddam days - weddings, births and the arrival of the first TV in 1960 - to darker circumstances that not all the family members would survive. Jo Tatchell, a close friend of Nabeel's, writes a true and revealing portrait that allows us to identify with the people behind the headlines. Although overshadowed by the brutality of Saddam's regime, it has at its core a classic and moving narrative of one family's enduring love for each other and their homeland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340897481
• ISBN 13: 9780340897485
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384