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Mothballs / by Alia Mamdouh ; translated by Peter Theroux.

Title
Mothballs / by Alia Mamdouh ; translated by Peter Theroux.
Author
Mamdūḥ, ʻĀliyah
Publication
Reading, UK : Garnet, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Theroux, Peter
Description
xi, 163 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Alia Mamadouh reconstructs the society of Baghdad in the 1940s and 1950s through the eyes of 10-year-old Huda, a precocious tomboy highly perceptive of the complex web of her family's relationships.
Series Statement
Arab women writers
Uniform Title
  • Ḥabbāt al-naftālīn. English
  • Arab women writers
Alternative Title
Ḥabbāt al-naftālīn.
Subject
  • Arabic literature > Translations into English
  • Baghdad (Iraq) > Fiction
  • Iraq > History > Hashemite Kingdom, 1921-1958 > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Translations
  • Translations (form)
  • Novels (texts)
  • Fiction
Note
  • Novel.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page ix).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1859640192
LCCN
gb^97008267^
OCLC
  • 34845992
  • SCSB-10575232
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library