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Bezig met laden... Het vliegende tapijtdoor Hala Jaber
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  clarasayre | Mar 30, 2013 |   Her life changes when she meets Zahra, a three year-old child who has been badly burned by a bomb which has left her parentless along with her baby sister Hawra. Hala lets these sisters drive her feelings and she embarks on a journey with no return. I thought the novel engaging in the sense that you could connect as a woman with Hala's need to become a mother and at the same time, understand her response to children ravaged by war who are left with no one in the world. But at the same time, I couldn't help but feeling a bit critical about the recollection of war, as it's told by a journalist who works for an English newspaper, which used terrible stories of damaged children to engage more readers (to rise funds BUT who, of course, also bought more newspapers...). So let me have the benefit of the doubt about the whole recollection. (  ) Luli81 | Oct 1, 2012 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Zahra, age three, and Hawra, only a few months old, were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003 that killed the rest of their family. In London, foreign correspondent Hala Jaber was preparing to head to Iraq to cover the emerging war. After ten years spent trying to conceive, Jaber and her husband had finally resigned themselves to a childless future. Now she intended to bury her grief in her work, with some unusually dangerous reporting. Once in Iraq, though, Jaber found herself drawn again and again to stories of mothers and children, a path that led her to an Iraqi children's hospital--and to Zahra and Hawra and their heart-wrenching story. Almost instantly Jaber became entwined in the lives of these girls, and in a struggle to advocate on their behalf that reveals far more about the human cost of war than any news bulletin ever could.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I do understand that the reason why Zahra and Hawra played such a huge part of her life was because of her infertility story and I don't wish to come across as unsympathetic, but the infertility part of the book dragged for me and I ended up skipping through some pages of it.
(I just re-read that and it makes me sound very unsympathetic...as someone who has no interest in having her own children and would rather adopt, I had a hard time relating to Jaber's desperate need to spend years and money on fertility options. That's why I skipped through those parts...)
However, all in all, a very good and powerful book. (