Love in a Torn Land

Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young 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...

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Main Author: Sasson, Jean (Author)
Format: Manuscript Book
Language:English
Published: London Transworld Publishers Ltd 2007
Edition:Biography : English
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Little Peshmerga girl
  • 2. Martyrs hill
  • 3. Sprinkled by stardust
  • 4. Baathist terror
  • 5. Ra'ad and Hady return
  • 6. Death
  • 7. My mother and my father
  • 8. Love in a torn land
  • 9. War
  • 10. The trenches
  • 11. Ra'ad leaves us
  • 12. The end of hope
  • 13. Secret police
  • 14. Love letters
  • 15. Love and marriage
  • 16. Under the Bergalou sky
  • 17. Good Kurd, bad Kurd
  • 18. Chemical attack
  • 19. Blinded
  • 20. Escape to Merge
  • 21. Bombed in Merge
  • 22. Climbing Kandil Mountain
  • 23. Searching for Auntie Aisha
  • Kosha, child of my heart
  • Epilogue : freedom!
  • Where are they now?