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A no holds barred recollection of award winning Sunday Times correspondent Hala jaber's search for the face of war, in Iraq 2003. a powerful tale of one womans love, guilt and redemption as she struggles to save 2 damaged children.
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'A sweetly sentimental story, full of the kind of heart-rending scenes of promises, separation, reunion and heartbreak that would do a Hallmark Channel afternoon film proud. I read the book in one sitting and confess I cried more than once... The final resolution could be a metaphor for the new, more realistic relationship between the allies and Iraq; there is no miracle of western intervention and, ultimately, Iraqis will have to solve their problems in their own way. It is hard to save a country, even harder to save an individual and, sometimes, most difficult of all to try and save yourself. Jaber's story doesn't tie it all up with a neat pink ribbon, but it is all the more telling and universal for that. Sometimes, all you can do is your best.' -- Wendell Steavenson, Sunday Times
'If there is one book which stands as evidence of the simple human cost of the Iraq war, it is Hala Jaber's "Flying Carpet to Baghdad". Jaber is a brave war correspondent, a canny British journalist but also a profoundly motherly woman. Her personal journey and genuine griefs are told sparingly and unflinchingly, without sentimentality or self-pity and with a rare degree of feeling for the orphans and the disposessed of Iraq. This book will stand when others are forgotten.' -- Libby Purves, author and presenter of Radio 4's Midweek
`Journalist's affecting memoir of reporting the war in Iraq and her attempt to adopt two small girls.'
-- Sunday Times
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`Journalist's affecting memoir of reporting the war in Iraq and her attempt to adopt two small girls.'
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0330465287
- ISBN 13 9780330465281
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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