by Jean Sasson · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483465660
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«Amor y guerra en el paraíso» is Jean Sasson's biographical account of the Kurdish Joanna al-Askari, published by Debolsillo in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Joanna al-Askari grows up in Saddam Hussein's Baghdad and only finds happiness in summers with her mother's family in Kurdistan. After falling in love with a Kurdish guerrilla and marrying him, she leaves the capital to join the independence cause and faces gas, Iraqi army incursions, interrogations and prisons. Jean Sasson reconstructs her story and, through her eyes, portrays Kurdish culture: landscapes, traditions, songs and dances, as a testament to human resilience and love in war.
Published on 8 February 2008 by Debolsillo, in the Best Seller collection. The copy is an exclusive hardback edition, with 448 pages. The translator is María Aránzazu Sumalla de Benito.
For readers of biographies and non-fiction about the Middle East interested in the history of the Kurds and in testimonies of women in conflict zones.
Jean P. Sasson is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East.
