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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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