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Author Rāwī, Shahad Al, author.

Title The Baghdad clock / Shahad al-Rāwī; translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren.

Publication Info. New York : Oneworld, 2018.
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F RAWI    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION RAWI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F RAWI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC RAWI, S    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F RAWI, S.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC RAWI    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F RAWI, SHAHAD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Adult Fiction  F RAWI SHAHAD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F RAWI SHAHAD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-RAWI    Check Shelf
Description 252 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published in Arabic by Dar al-Hikma, 2016.
Summary Shortlisted for the international prize for Arabic fiction 2018. For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE. Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again. This poignant debut novel will spirit readers away to a world they know only from the television, revealing just what it is like to grow up in a city that is slowly disappearing in front of your eyes, and showing how in the toughest times, children can build up the greatest resilience.
Subject Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Civil war -- Fiction.
Air raid shelters -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Fiction.
Dreams -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
Arabic fiction.
Teenage girls -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
War fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Added Author Leafgren, Luke, translator.
ISBN 9781786073242 (hardcover)
1786073242 (hardcover)
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