Floodlines / Saleem Haddad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haddad, Saleem, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraqis--Fiction.

Iraqis.

Sisters--Fiction.

Sisters.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Inheritance and succession--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

Generations--Fiction.

Generations.

Baghdad (Iraq)--Fiction.

Baghdad (Iraq).

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Flood lines

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2026.

Summary:

In the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other's orbit by the rediscovery of their late father's long-lost paintings. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father's legacy--an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize. As the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab's estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the reemergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart. Spanning continents and decades--from 1950s Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps--Floodlines is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure.

ISBN:

9798889661658

OCLC:

1570601361