In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq''s most famous young
poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with
his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced
by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba''ath Party''s
Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced
certain death if he stayed.
Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early ''60s in a large
and loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq''s new
middle class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress to
send all of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds,
Nabeel meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he is
a student. But Saddam''s rise to power ushers in a new era of
repression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families will
escape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and random
violence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel’s mother tells
him “It is your duty to write.” His poetry, a blend of myth and
history, attacks the regime determined to silence him. As Nabeel’s
fame and influence as a poet grows, he is forced into hiding when
the Party begins to dismantle the city’s infrastructure and impose
power cuts and food rationing. Two of his brothers are already in
prison and a third is used as a human minesweeper on the frontline
of the Iran-Iraq war. After six months in hiding, Nabeel escapes
with his wife and young son to Beirut, Paris, Prague, Budapest, and
finally England.
Written by Jo Tatchell, a journalist who has spent many years in
the Middle East and who is a close friend of Nabeel Yasin’s,
Nabeel''s Song is the gripping story of a family and its fateful
encounter with history. From a warm, lighthearted look at the Yasin
family before the Saddam dictatorship, to the tale of Nabeel’s
persecution and daring flight, and the suspense-filled account of
his family’s rebellion against Saddam''s regime, Nabeel''s Song is an
intimate, illuminating, deeply human chronicle of a country and a
culture devastated by political repression and war.
關於作者：
JO TATCHELL is based in London and writes on Middle Eastern
culture for a variety of U.K. and U.S. media, including The
Guardian.
NABEEL YASIN, one of Iraq’s most celebrated poets, is best known
for the epic poem “Brother Yasin.” Since 1990 he has lived in the
U.K. with his wife and two sons.
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