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Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of My Iraqi Family

By (author) Tamara Chalabi

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A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one familyâ€™s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present. The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For centuries they have occupied positions of honour and responsibility, loyally serving first the Ottoman Empire and, later, the national government. In â€˜Late for Tea at the Deer Palaceâ€™, Tamara Chalabi explores the dramatic story of her extraordinary familyâ€™s history in this beautiful, passionate and troubled land. From the grand opulence of her great-grandfatherâ€™s house and the birth of the modern state, through to the elegant Iraq of her grandmother Bibi, who lived the life of a queen in Baghdad, and finally to her own story, that of the ex-pat daughter of a family in exile, Chalabi takes us on an unforgettable and eye-opening journey. This is the story of a lost homeland, whose turbulent transformations over the twentieth century left gaping wounds at the hearts not only of the family it exiled, but also of the elegant, sophisticated world it once represented. When Tamara visited her once-beautiful ancestral land for the first time in 2003, she found a country she didnâ€™t recognize â€“ and a nation on the brink of a terrifying and uncertain new beginning. Lyrical and unique, this exquisite multi-generational memoir brings together east and west, the poetic and the political as it brings to life a land of beauty and grace that has been all but lost behind recent headlines.

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