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开 本: 大32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400075256
?I searched for recent books about Iraq that described it as a
real country. I found only one, the excellent Baghdad
Diaries.? ?Edward Said
?I hope many people will read this book and note the futility of
war and perhaps do something about it; all my life I have cherished
this hope in vain, but we must not stop.? ?Mary Wesley, author of
Harnessing Peacocks and A Sensible
Life
?Something of what sanctions mean for ordinary Iraqis. . .records
the day-to-day struggle for survival.? ?Times Literary
Supplement
?Insouciant, charming and witty, with much black humour. Al-Radi
writes poignantly.? ?The Independent (London) —
Review
during the first war on Iraq and in exile in the years following,
Iraqi-born, British-educated artist Nuha al-Radi shows us the
effects of war on ordinary people. She recounts the day-to-day
realities of living in a city under siege, where food has to be
consumed or thrown out because there is no way to preserve it,
where eventually people cannot sleep until the nightly bombing
commences, where packs of stray dogs roam the streets (and provide
her own dog Salvi with a harem) and rats invade homes. Through it
all, al-Radi works at her art and gathers with neighbors and family
for meals and other occasions, happy and sad.
In the wake of the war, al-Radi lives in semi-exile, shuttling
between Beirut and Amman, travelling to New York, London, Mexico
and Yemen. As she suffers the indignities of being an Iraqi in
exile, al-Radi immerses us in a way of life constricted by the
stress and effects of war and embargoes, giving texture to a
reality we have only been able to imagine before now. But what
emanates most vibrantly from these diaries is the spirit of
endurance and the celebration of the smallest of life’s joys.
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