Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship - Bee Rowlatt Reviews
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Newest Review: ... of Iraq and away to safety as an asylum seeker. Each woman became fascinated by the life of the other and wanted to know ... more
... more about what was happening in their very different worlds. Bee learned of May's life in war-torn Baghdad, of the challenge of her Shia-Sunni mixed marriage and the antagonism it attracted, and of the crazy goings-on in her workplace where logic and common sense had long been victim to politics. In exchange she offered May a window onto the world of a suburban London middle-class mum, worrying over the school run and the Parent Teacher Association, whether the take the kids to Glastonbury and how to balance her time and...more
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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship - Bee Rowlatt: Writing about every day life in Baghdad and the Suburbs (984 words)by - written on 02/01/12, updated on 03/01/12 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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~A Tale of Two Cities~ When I heard that there was a book called 'Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad - The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship' my first thought was that it sounded just a bit too similar to 'Reading Lolita in Tehran' and I will admit that I dismissed it as another 'jumping on the bandwagon' book and thought no more of it. Then in autumn 2011 BBC Radio 4 did an adaptation, teasing the listener with just 15 minutes each day and I was hooked. I loved the adaptation of the book so much that I ordered a copy almost immediately - though perhaps to call it a 'book' is the wrong way to describe this. In effect, it's just a collection of emails ... Read the complete review
Writing About Thinking About Reading 'Talking About Jane Aus ... (987 words)by - written on 04/06/10 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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I feel very 'cultured' as I tell you how I came to read this book - if I remember rightly I saw it reviewed in something like Times2 (or some other such 'stylish' read!), and was immediately drawn to reading it. I liked the reference to Jane Austen, whose novels I can't help but love, and I thought it would be an interesting read after enjoying other books set in Middle East war zones (namely The Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns). I was also intrigued by the mention that the book is a series of emails, a correspondence between two women living in completely different worlds. I don't know very much about Iraq and so all these reasons conspired to convince me to buy a . Read the complete review
by - written on 28/04/10, updated on 27/10/11 (Very useful, 50 readings)
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In early 2005, a BBC journalist emails an Iraqi woman to confirm and prepare for a telephone interview about day to day life in Baghdad, and about her thoughts on the forthcoming elections there. May's detailed and frank responses prompt more curiosity and questions from Bee, and a friendship develops between the two women. They tell each other about their work, relationships and family lives. I picked up this book because of the title but should say it turned out not really to be about Jane Austen. May is an academic who teaches English literature at a women's college in Baghdad, and explains: "I think it helps my students because it ... Read the complete review
