Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

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Its an admirable endeavour to have Iraq addressed by someone who is in so many ways able to approach it from two worlds. . . . Tamara Chalabi has the stuff in every sense that is needful to undertake this. Christopher Hitchens In the tradition of Jung Changs Wild Swans and Bhutto Benazirs Reconciliation comes Tamara Chalabis unique memoir of returning to her familys homeland Iraq. In this epic story of one daughters journey through the annals of her familys tumultuous history Chalabis powerful voice and piercing vision illuminate her country and its people as never before.