Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq by Jo Tatchell

Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq by Jo Tatchell

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.

'Such an extraordinary story deserves an extraordinary writer and thankfully it has Jo TatchellShe puts you perfectly in the place, and her pacey, page-turner narrative would shame most thriller writers. A staggering, unmissable achievement.' -- John Harding, Daily Mail 'A moving personal tale of family life and love torn apart by persecution and destruction under a crude regime. The story shines through, engrossing in its horror, doubly powerful for the knowledge that a happy ending is still far away.' -- Financial Times 'Utterly compelling ... what emerges is a resilient family's unconditional love for one another' -- Scotland on Sunday 'Jo Tatchell's moving narrative, from Nabeel's mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and the courage of a loving, close-knit family, oppressed by tyranny and war. Behind the deadly statistics and political rhetoric, voices such as his inspire us to pity and pride.' -- The Times

Jo Tatchell is a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East and Arab countries. She writes on Middle Eastern culture for UK and US media including the Guardian and Prospect Magazine. Nabeel Yasin is famous in Iraq as a poet best known for his epic poem Brother Yasin. Since 1990 he has lived in the UK with his wife and two sons.

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ISBN 13	9780340897034
ISBN 10	0340897031
Title	Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq
Author	Jo Tatchell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2006-07-13
Number of pages	384
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