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Between Two Rivers: A Story of Life, Love and Marriage from an English Woman in Baghdad - Couverture souple

Khafaji, Dorothy Al

 
9781908946874: Between Two Rivers: A Story of Life, Love and Marriage from an English Woman in Baghdad
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ISBN 10 : 1908946873 ISBN 13 : 9781908946874
Editeur : Parthian Books, 2013

Synopsis

Between Two Rivers is an honest, funny and moving memoir of Baghdad life from the perspective of a young woman from England, transplanted into another culture by love and family. Dorothy is eighteen when she meets a dark, mysterious stranger at a dance in Portsmouth. Zane is a student from Iraq studying engineering. Almost before she realises, they are married, her husband has finished his course and Dorothy has a three month old daughter called Summer. They borrow a Mercedes from Zane\x27s brother in Germany and begin the drive to Baghdad. Zane doesn\x27t have a licence or insurance for the car and Dorothy doesn\x27t have a visa for Iraq. Zane has only just told his family he is married. They arrive in Baghdad to live with his parents, sisters and brothers in a house in the suburbs. Zane has to find a job in a country where everything is changing. Dorothy has to learn Arabic and help entertain a stream of visitors, all eager to meet the imported new bride. She is soon pregnant again. Life in in the east is not going to be as she expected, letters take weeks to arrive from home and her mother is convinced she is never going to see her daughter again... The book follows twenty years of love, adjustment and adventure for Dorothy Al Khafaji.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dorothy was born and grew up in Somerset. In Baghdad she trained at the British Council to teach TEFL. Upon return to the UK she taught in Language schools and became a mature student at Portsmouth Poly, followed by a PGCE at University of Surrey. She moved to Wales to start a family business, which she still manages.

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Éditeur
Parthian Books
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1908946873
ISBN 13 
9781908946874
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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