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The Weight of a Mustard Seed
The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny | Wendell Steavenson
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“A masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present.” —New York Times Book Review “A first-class investigation…that tells the reader more about the tensions of living close to power in Saddam’s dictatorship.” —Washington Post The Weight of a Mustard Seed is an unprecedented and intimate account of Iraqi life under Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, revealed through the tragic story of one of the dictator’s loyal generals. Journalist Wendell Steavenson writes thrilling nonfiction with a novelist’s flair, offering a new perspective on life inside a totalitarian regime that is as moving, compelling, and dramatic as The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul.
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This non-fiction account of a military general & his family in Iraq at the time just before Sadam's fall started well, with a a good mix of personal anecdotes and historical detail. But then the journalist author took over and it became a dry telling of events without character. I gave up at 50%.