- Politics and government, Friends and associates, Abused wives, Arranged marriage
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam. As a palace insider, she offers a glimpse of life under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle".
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Zainab Salbi
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Tantor Media Inc, Gotham
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781606409923
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