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When Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (Hardcover)

by Mona Yahia (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Halban Publishers (26 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1870015746
  • ISBN-13: 978-1870015745
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,176,250 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Baghdad in the 1960s, this is the story of Lina, a middle-class Jewish girl who is not keen to grow up while she perceives her world to be restricted by fear and by the political pressures put upon the local Jewish community. The family finally escapes, ending 3000 years of Jewish presence in Iraq.

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At a ceremony at the Arts Club in London, 2001, Mona Yahia won the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Prize for fiction for her novel. The 4000 pound prize is given annually to an author of a work of literary merit, which stimulates an interest and awareness of themes of Jewish concern amongst a wider reading public.

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5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening + highly poetical book for multiple readings!, 8 Nov 2000
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Mona Yahia tells an exitng story about the secrets of growing up in a world unknown to, as I may assume, not only to me but to most Western readers. Set in Baghdad in the 1960s, it may well be the first novel focusing on Jewish life in Iraq shortly before the extinction of the oldest Jewish community in the world. The author thus continues a literary heritage of internationally acclaimed authors like Sami Michael and Eli Amir. For the Western reader, the novel provides many insights about the plight of a relogious/culturel minority under one of the harshest dictatorships in recent history. Though the story provides plenty of the odeur, the light, the sounds and the heat of the orient, it clearly refuses to feed a romantic view of this part of the world, which continues to be perceived - in journalism and in fiction - through a veil of Werstern projections. At the same time the author succeeds in describing a process of individual growth within the context of historical events and finds in language a field of creation as well as self-determination: while Mona Yahias style seems to reflect the richness that language can provide, Lina, the main character, discovers its reduction as a tool for freedom ... I enjoyed WHEN THE GREY BEETLES TOOK OVER BAGHDAD thoroughly as a first reading! - It's one of the rare books to which I look forward to reading again!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great read - evocative and thoughtful., 6 Dec 2000
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A very absorbing picture of a young person's experiences during an eventful period in recent middle-east history. I read it all in two sessions.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE BOOK IS A MUST FOR PEOPLE HAILING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, 11 April 2001
I have been shown a copy of the book by my niece Dr. Cynthia Bessel and after looking through its contents and reading a few pages I decided to have my own copy. As the author of the Baghdad Connection, published in 1992 I am interested in books dealing with that subject. However, when I saw the title of the Book: WHEN THE GREY BEETLES TOOK OVER BAGHDAD, I though hey here is another book on the Beetles. Probably this book encouraged Uday the son of Saddam Hussein to introduce rock music to Baghdad to cheer the young. But when Dr. Bessel corrected me I changed my mind and hastened to order a personal copy.

Maurice Sawdayee Ph.D.

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