The Watermelon Boys
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9774168801
ISBN-13
9789774168802
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Imprint
Hoopoe
Country of Manufacture
EG
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 30th, 2018
Print length
264 Pages
Weight
342 grams
Dimensions
13.10 x 20.50 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
War & combat fictionHistorical fictionFiction in translation
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Powerful retelling of popular narratives of the British campaign in Mesopotamia
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE
A vivid, human story, an alternative narrative of First World War Iraq
It is the winter of 1915 and Iraq has been engulfed by the First World War. Hungry for independence from Ottoman rule, Ahmad leaves his peaceful family life on the banks of the Tigris to join the British-led revolt. Thousands of miles away, Welsh teenager Carwyn reluctantly enlists and is sent, via Gallipoli and Egypt, to the Mesopotamia campaign.
Carwyn’s and Ahmad’s paths cross, and their fates are bound together. Both are forever changed, not only by their experience of war, but also by the parallel discrimination and betrayal they face.
Ruqaya Izzidien’s evocative debut novel is rich with the heartbreak and passion that arise when personal loss and political zeal collide, and offers a powerful retelling of the history of British intervention in Iraq.
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