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<title>When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mona-yahia/when_the_grey_beetles_took_over_baghdad.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/mona-yahia/when_the_grey_beetles_took_over_baghdad_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad" alt ="When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad"/></a><br//>In Baghdad , Lina is trying to lead a normal life, but politics keep intruding. Violent government coups are almost annual events and it's difficult for a child to understand what's going on or who to believe. The need for secrecy means Lina cannot tell her best friend that they are just waiting for the right moment to flee. It is the 1960s and Lina is part of the dwindling Jewish community... Mona Yahia was born in Baghdad in 1954 and escaped with her family to Israel in 1970. In 1985 she moved to Germany to study fine arts and has remained there ever since. Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize for Fiction 2001 'Yahia rolls Baghdad around her tongue, savouring its suks, smells, and sweetmeats (reading her makes one hungry). This is a truly exotic novel, but it's also a coming-of-age work in which the almost imperceptible transformation from childhood to adolescence is saltily observed and never sentimentalised. Yahia's prose courses with insight and wit. Her deftness...]]></description>
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