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SUMMARY:A Stranger in Baghdad with Elizabeth Loudon
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here.\n\n\nTMR’s August 2023 book club selection is the novel is A Stranger in Baghdad by Elizabeth Loudon\n  \nIn beautifully rendered prose\, a mother and a daughter struggle as outsiders in Baghdad and London in this intergenerational drama set against a background of political tension and intrigue \n“Who would be charmed by tales of life in the beautiful old house on the banks of the Tigris—looted now no doubt\, its shutters torn and the courtyard strewn with mattresses?” \nOne night in 2003\, Anglo-Iraqi psychiatrist Mona Haddad has a surprise visitor to her London office\, an old acquaintance Duncan Claybourne. But why has he come? Will his confession finally lay bare what happened to her family before they escaped Iraq? \nTheir stories begin in 1937\, when Mona’s mother Diane\, a lively Englishwoman newly married to Ibrahim\, an ambitious Iraqi doctor\, meets Duncan by chance. Diane is working as a nanny for the Iraqi royal family. Duncan is a young British Embassy officer in Baghdad. When the king dies in a mysterious accident\, Ibrahim and his family suspect Diane of colluding with Duncan and the British. \nSummoning up the vanished world of mid-twentieth-century Baghdad\, Elizabeth Loudon’s richly evocative story of one family calls into question British attitudes and policies in Iraq and offers up a penetrating reflection on cross-cultural marriage and the lives of women caught between different worlds. \nTo read an excerpt\, click here. \nWe’ll meet to talk about the book on the last Sunday in August\, the 27th\, at 1 pm Eastern/19:00 CET. \n\nRSVP here.
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