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Lädt ... Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraqvon Jo Tatchell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A history of the family of the Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin since 1954. The journalistic voice – the author is a journalist specializing in the Middle East – is competent but limited. This is essentially Nabeel’s memoir as told to Tatchell, beginning with his simple, idyllic memories of village life when he was four years old. There is no nuance in the characterization: the Ba-athists are bad, Nabeel’s extended family are good, even when they are forced to betray others through the machinations of Saddam’s regime. The story itself is compelling and moving, but clumsily told in often clichéd language, with clunky dialogue too frequently used for awkward explication. A history of the family of the Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin since 1954. The journalistic voice – the author is a journalist specializing in the Middle East – is competent but limited. This is essentially Nabeel’s memoir as told to Tatchell, beginning with his simple, idyllic memories of village life when he was four years old. There is no nuance in the characterization: the Ba-athists are bad, Nabeel’s extended family are good, even when they are forced to betray others through the machinations of Saddam’s regime. The story itself is compelling and moving, but clumsily told in often clichéd language, with clunky dialogue too frequently used for awkward explication. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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NABEEL'S SONG 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. NABEEL'S SONG 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)956.7043092History and Geography Asia Middle East IraqKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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