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Love in a Torn Land - Jean Sasson

 
Description: ISBN 0553818147 / Author: Jean P. Sasson / Genre: Biography / Bestselling author, Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young ... more
Love in a Torn Land - Jean Sasson ... woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the Princess trilogy and Mayada. Love in a Torn Land is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious 'Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.

Newest Review: ... dangerous time for Kurds across Iraq. Originally resident in Baghdad Joanna, her mother and siblings leave the city for ... more

 ... Kurdistan on their annual holiday leaving behind her father, it is on one of these summer trips that she fall in love with a young Kurdish man, Sarbast, who has since they first met become one of the Kurdish freedom fighters, one of the peshmerga. Eventually Joanna leaves her family and home to marry Sarbast and live in a peshmerga village hidden in the mountains of Kurdistan, it is here that she and her husband join the fight for Kurdish independance. After being temporarily blinded in a chemical attack Joanna and her hu...more

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Premium Review Love in a Torn Land - Jean Sasson: Love is always torn isnt it? (542 words)
by - written on 21/11/07 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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Jean Sassoon is an author who is possibly best known for her series of books based upon the recollections of a Saudi Princess, since the publication of those books she has written several other biographical accounts with other Middle Eastern women, the lastest of these which I have got hold of was this Love in A Torn Land. This book features the story of Joanna a Kurdish woman living in Iraq in the late 1980's. As anyone who knows anything about this period will be aware at this time Saddam Husseins Ba'athist party were in control of the country and the Kurdish people of Iraq were discontent with their inferior treatment, making it a politically and personally ...  Read the complete review

 

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