![]() The reader grows with Al-Rawi’s characters, living life with them, losing life with them and navigating through their sorrows and joys. ![]() The author does an incredible job of painting a portrait of a neighborhood in Baghdad, with its ups and downs, its scandals and vibrancy, despite the surrounding planes, rockets and political upheaval. ![]() ![]() Along with a best friend named Nadia, the narrator takes the reader on a journey brimming with magical realism, in which reality and dreams are intertwined. Through the eyes of a young girl, the reader is invited into a Baghdad one may not have visited before. The book follows two young girls who first meet in a shelter during Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and tells the story of their unyielding spirit in the face of a crumbling Iraq.Īl-Rawi’s reader is immediately drawn into the world she has created with her narrator’s sense of childlike wonder. CHICAGO: Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018, Shahad Al-Rawi’s extraordinary debut novel, “The Baghdad Clock,” turns life in embattled Iraq into a fantastical world of characters and memories that serve as fuel for those who have lived and loved through the years of war. ![]()
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