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The Long Way Back
Fuad al-Takarli
1980
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A Baghdad family on the eve of the 1963 coup.
Why this book matters
A judge by profession and one of the greatest Iraqi novelists of the 20th century. The Long Way Back, his acknowledged masterpiece about a family and a nation at breaking point, took nearly twenty years to write.
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