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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein : Based on a True Story

by Jennifer Roy

2020-04-23 14:14:25

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At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq''s dictator, Saddam Hussein, went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States. Ov... Read more
At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq''s dictator, Saddam Hussein, went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States.

Over the next forty-three days, Ali and his family survived bombings, food shortages, and constant fear. Ali and his brothers played soccer on the abandoned streets of their Basra neighborhood, wondering when or if their medic father would return from the war front. Cinematic, accessible, and timely, this is the story of one ordinary kid''s view of life during war. Less

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File size8.3x5.4x0.6inches
Print pages176
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
Publication date September 1, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780358108825
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