Bøger om Iraq

A Middle Eastern love triangle forms when twenty-eight-year-old Shiawa marries the older Bahrus without knowing he is already married. She moves to her husband’s village, Banaman, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and soon realises that she must share the house with a bitter first wife, who has never been able to conceive. In the house, she experiences the first wife’s malicious actions against her which only increase once she becomes pregnant and is likely to achieve something big. The troublesome living conditions in the village, where gossip, religion, status, and loyalty have a high influence, put Shiawa’s patience to the test in her determination to pursue her own happiness.

The Taste of Spider – Memoirs of an Iranian Soldier is based on the author’s life during the Iran-Iraq-war in the late 1980s.“If he eats this disgusting spider I’ll make sure he gets an extra week’s leave!” These words of a cruel lieutenant spark the young sergeant’s steadfast determination to get just a few days of peace…This eyewitness account of a crucial period in recent Middle Eastern history includes Saddam Hussein bombing oil wells – and the international community turning a blind eye to the use of chemical weapons. But whether getting his first kiss from a nurse, mourning a fallen comrade or writing poetry this is also the tale of an utterly human hero in utterly inhuman conditions. Humor and wit comprise the author’s survival kit when laying bare the terrible war in these terribly funny short stories. Mehrdad Zamani was born in Iran in 1969. He studied humanities until doing military service. In 1992 he fled to Denmark where he presently lives. The Taste of Spider is his debut.

We are in 1998, during the three weeks leading up to one of this year‘s worst terrorist acts, namely the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar, Tanzania.The Danish former ranger Stig Jansen, is located in the country in civilian affairs and soon he’s unwittingly whirled into what’s going to prove to be the precursor to one of the Worlds’ largest conspiracies involving the corrupt local government power, the CIA, sinister parts of the German government, Saddam Hussein‘s regime in Iraq and a Danish colonel in the Defense Intelligence Agency.He’s pulled around in the strange circus and his reactions and actions will be crucial for all the people he comes into contact with during his stay.Through his escape from the Kenyan military, who accuses him of terrorism and murder, he is driven, along with the beautiful Scottish Red Cross employee Jane, into the wilderness, where his abilities and skills as former elite soldier, come into their own, and the flight progresses then into a nightmare where the difference between friend and foe is subtle.