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The Flying Carpet to Baghdad
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
Zahra, aged 3, and Hawra, just a few months old were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003. Their parents and their five siblings all died. Unable to have children herself, Hala Jaber, an award-winning foreign correspondent, was determined to do all she could to help them. Sent to Iraq by the Sunday Times to cover...
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304 pages
Imprint: Pan
Reviews
I read the book in one sitting and confess I cried more than once. (...) Jaber's story doesn't tie it all up with a neat pink ribbon, but it is all the more telling and universal for thatSunday Times
nothing I have read compares to Hala Jaber's mesmerising account of how her longing for a baby drew her into an intense, often agonising, involvement with two little Iraqi sisters orphaned by a U.S missile strikeDaily Mail
Far from the usual gung-ho memoirs by war correspondents, this is a heart-rending and highly personal story by an incredibly brave womanChristina Lamb, author of The Africa House and The Sewing Circles of Herat