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Mothballs

Alia Mamdouh

1986

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A girl's childhood and coming of age in Baghdad.

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A leading Iraqi novelist living in exile. Naphtalene is a sensuous female portrait of old Baghdad; her later novel The Loved Ones won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal (2004).

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