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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth hardcover, 1st American edition, [x] + 232 pages. No dust jacket. Ex-library, marked 'withdrawn'; stamped upper outer page edges, sparse internal library markings (a number on half-title page, a stamp on rear endpaper. Pages 228-231 appear to be xerox copies, professionally bound-in by the library. Some mild yellowing on front endpaper, else book is clean and bright with unmarked text and good secure binding. Boards are moderately dulled with faint dusty and handling marks; rubbed-through tips of outer corners. -- Jameel Farran, a Christian Arab, is forced to flee his destroyed Jerusalem in 1948. Teaching at Baghdad University, he falls in love with a beautiful Muslim girl, Sulafa, but their turbulent affair meets almost insurmountable obstacles of tradition and circumstance. This is a story of multiple conflicts between Arab and Jew, desert and city, dictatorship and futile liberal effort, Eastern tradition and Western innovation. Jabra's Baghdad is a city filled with strife, squalor, and frustration; his picture of the brothels, the streets, the drawing rooms, and the lecture halls is a rich and powerful one, realistic and profoundly disturbing. Seller Inventory # 005081