Title: East winds, west winds
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.
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade, Fiction, British, Social conditions, Pétrole, Romans, nouvelles, Industrie et commerce, Britanniques, Conditions sociales, Roman, Text
Places: Iraq, Irak, arabischer
Time periods: 20th century, 20e siècle, Geschichte 20. Jh