{"product_id":"women-on-a-journey-haifa-zangana-9780292714847","title":"Women on a Journey: Between Baghdad and London","description":"\u003cp\u003e Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving--each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought novel is searching in her own way for peace with a past that continually threatens to swallow up the present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Majda, the widow of a former Ba'ath party official who was killed by the government he served. Adiba, a political dissident tortured under Saddam Hussein's regime. Um Mohammed, a Kurdish refugee who fled her home for political asylum. Iqbal, a divorced mother whose family in Iraq is suffering the effects of Western economic sanctions. And Sahira, the wife of a Communist politician, struggling with his disillusionment and her own isolation. Bound to one another by a common Iraqi identity and a common location in 1990s London, these women come together across differences in politics, ethnic and class background, age, and even language. In narrating the friendship that develops among them, Zangana captures their warmth and humor as well as their sadness, their feelings of despair along with their search for hope, their sense of uprootedness, and their yearnings for home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Weaving between the women's memories of Iraq--nostalgic and nightmarish--and their lives as exiles in London, Zangana's novel gives voice to the richness and complexity of Iraqi women's experiences. Through their stories, the novel represents a powerful critique of the violence done to ordinary people by those who hold power both in Iraq and in the West. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Haifa Zangana\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 029271484X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292714847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.58w x 0.63d","brand":"Haifa Zangana","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988104970495,"sku":"9780292714847","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2f65c8f-aa9a-4780-ba2b-6c52ab0045d0.jpg?v=1683292647","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-on-a-journey-haifa-zangana-9780292714847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}