{"product_id":"baghdad-adieu-by-salah-al-hamdani-9780857425447","title":"Baghdad, Adieu","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child labourer, with little or no education. As a political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, he learned to read and write Arabic; once he was released from prison, he continued to work against the regime, ultimately, at age twenty-one, choosing exile in Paris. He now writes in French, but he remains a poet of exile, of memory, wounded by the loss of his homeland and those dear to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis landmark collection gathers thirty-five years of his writings, from his first volume in Arabic, \u003ci\u003eMemory of Embers\u003c\/i\u003e, to his latest collection, written originally in French, \u003ci\u003eFor You I Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. It offers English-language readers their first substantial overview of Al Hamdani’s work, fired by the fight against injustice and shot through with longing for the home to which he can never return.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470066893036,"sku":"9780857425447","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857425447-baghdad-adieu.jpg?v=1775211318","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/baghdad-adieu-by-salah-al-hamdani-9780857425447","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}