Baghdad Twilight: A beautiful, Iraqi girl's entanglement with Saddam Hussein's elite

by Tova Murad Sadka

A fictional historical novel that covers the eight years of the Iraq-Iran War (1980-1988). Though the book is fictional it accurately depicts the historical events of that era.Shrook is a young, beautiful, Iraqi woman who just graduated as a chemist from Baghdad University. Her family is one of the few remaining prestigious ones, as most others have left Iraq, to avoid the country's constant political turmoil. On September 1980 war erupted between Iraq and Iran, following skirmishes at the Iraqi borders. The dispute was over Shat el Arab, the River of the Arabs, Iraq's only outlet to the sea and a constant cause of clashes between Iraq and Iran. The war lasted eight long years, with tremendous losses and destruction on both sides. Shrook's family was spared the carnage. Toward the end of the war Shrook married Anwar, a young, successful chemist who had pursue her for a long time. They have a happy marriage, except that the head of the Iraqi governing party develops an interest in Shrook, hence events spiral out of control.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521289336
• ISBN13: 9781521289334
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"