Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London

by Haifa Zangana and TurtleMe

Book Overview

Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving--each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought novel is searching in her own way for peace with a past that continually threatens to swallow up the present.

Majda, the widow of a former Ba'ath party official who was killed by the government he served. Adiba, a political dissident tortured under Saddam Hussein's regime. Um Mohammed, a Kurdish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029271484X
• ISBN13: 9780292714847
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"