The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
- ISBN10: 0358141834
- ISBN13: 9780358141839
- Author: Jeanette Winter
- Illustrator: Jeanette Winter
- Format: Paperback / softback
- Published: 01/10/2019
£6.99
Alia Muhammad Baker's library in Basra, Iraq, has been a meeting place for those who love books for the past fourteen years. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library - along with the thirty thousand books within it - will be destroyed forever.
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In this incredible true story of a war-stricken country where civilians seem powerless in the face of battle, this feminist and inspirational tale about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us how, throughout the world, the love of literature can unite us all.