Thursday, January 29, 2009

REVIEW: The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson (telegraph.co.uk)

Christopher Silvester on Wendell Steavenson's account of the doomed Iraqi general who became both slave and henchman

By Christopher Silvester
Last Updated: 3:35PM GMT 22 Jan 2009

Wendell Steavenson’s first book, about the two years she spent in Georgia, the post-Soviet state in the Caucasus, was called Stories I Stole. Here, in this chilling study of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, she steals more and we should be grateful for her larceny.

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