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Sognando Jane Austen a Baghdad

Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
The True Story Of An Unlikely Friendship

• Author: Bee Rowlatt, May Witwit
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Released: 2010
• ISBN: 0141038535 ISBN-
• 13:9780141038537
• Pages: 384
• Fiction foreign

May teaches English literature at a university in Baghdad, a course for all girls. E even if nothing seems further from its surroundings, she leaves the house every day to talk about Jane Austen with her students. For the rest, May lives an almost normal life, go to the bazaar to shop and hairdresser. Only it does braving the bombs, the electric current on and off, the black market and the government crackdown, which affects mainly the intellectuals as she and her husband. Bee is a journalist in London, and his biggest challenge is to manage three children, a globetrotting husband and editorial meetings. May Bee and could not be more different. Culture, religion, kilometers, all the separations. Yet, when a mail contacts, become friends. They tell their days, and the minutes of May become a sort of diary troubled Iraq today. A schizophrenic country where girls wore make-up and dissolve the hair just come to school, and then recompose before going out, and a daughter can be put away for marrying a younger man and of inferior condition. On the thread of the day, however, the words of forgiveness May the light tone to make room for fear. The militias are killing Sunnis, like her husband, and the only salvation for them is to leave the country. It begins as a fight against time, you discover that in May and Bee to be more friends than you think.

This book is really a minor masterpiece 'unwanted'. It was not, in fact, that the mail program exchanged between the two authors were published. It 'quite strange as it began this spectacular special friendship and the reader sees before his eyes as it has developed through hundreds of emails.
The book is unique with its structure: there is nothing but the email and Bee May. The first is a British journalist whose letters a little 'bother me, with their air of snob, who spoke of the surplus with a person who already had little. But these are more frivolous mail that may distract the bad thoughts, which may raise the tension of the war. The second is a university professor of English at Baghdad, whose mail is always full of fear, anxiety, and hopes for the future. We are living the war situation in Iraq between 2006 and 2008, with check points with car bombs, with the shootings, ration cards and the black market.
And for those who ask if not, Jane Austen has nothing to do in this book! Perhaps the title may attract those who, like me, adores the English author but the title alone is a reflection of him: how can we explain the freedom and the mentality of the heroines of Jane Austen in a closed Baghdad, masculine and traditionally oppressed?

It 's a book touching and full of emotions. Knowing that is a true story, that May has truly lived what he writes, that thousands of people have experienced the same situations opens our eyes to what happens in the Iraqi people and those affected by war.

C.