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When the Grey Beetles took over Baghdad (Paperback)
by Mona Yahia (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: ORION; New Ed edition (26 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1870015851
  • ISBN-13: 978-1870015851
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 593,296 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is not easy as politics keep intruding. Violent government coups are almost annual events and it's difficult for a child to understand what's going on or who to believe. The need for secrecy means Lina cannot tell her best friend that her family is just waiting for the right moment to flee. It is the 1960s and Lina is part of the dwindling Jewish community

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Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is not easy as politics keep intruding. Violent government coups are almost annual events and it's difficult for a child to understand what's going on or who to believe. The need for secrecy means Lina cannot tell her best friend that her family is just waiting for the right moment to flee. It is the 1960s and Lina is part of the dwindling Jewish community

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening + highly poetical book for multiple readings!, 8 Nov 2000
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This review is from: When Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (Hardcover)
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!