East winds, west winds
By: Mahdi Issa al-Saqr ; translated by Paul Starkey
Publisher: Arabia
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781906697228
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade; Fiction; British; Social conditions; Pétrole; Romans, nouvelles; Industrie et commerce; Britanniques; Conditions sociales; Roman; Text
Work titles: Riyāḥ sharqīyah, riyāḥ gharbīyah
Description: Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, this novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and vivid of relations between the British and their local employees in the 1950s.
Notes: Translated from the Arabic.