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Farewell Babylon
- Coming of Age in Jewish Baghdad
- Narrated by: A. C. Fellner
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A classic memoir about growing up in Baghdad in the 1940s, by a grand old man of Canadian letters.
Here is the exotic world of one of the East's ancient cities, where Naim Kattan was born into the heart of its then teeming Jewish community. In this evocative memoir, a young boy comes of age, discovering work, literature, patriotism, racism - and women and love. Farewell, Babylon is a story of roots and anguished exile, of thirst for life and life's experiences. Above all it is a memoir of a lost world, a magical city in which Iraq's Kurds, Bedouins, Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together in a rough sort of harmony.
©2005 Raincoast Books (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
Critic Reviews
"A fine portrait of a particular place and time that is no more." (Library Journal)
"In all respects, a most moving and haunting work." (Montreal Star)
"In all respects, a most moving and haunting work." (Montreal Star)