{"product_id":"floodlines","title":"Floodlines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the summer of 2014, three long estranged Iraqi-British sisters are pulled back into each other’s orbit by the rediscovery of their late father’s paintings, that were assumed lost when they fled Baghdad. Beautiful, elusive Zainab; embittered, practical Mediha; and headstrong, queer Ishtar each lay claim to their father’s legacy—an artistic and personal inheritance entwined with betrayal, exile, and a homeland they no longer recognize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the sisters fight to preserve, erase, or repurpose the past, Zainab’s estranged son Nizar, a war correspondent haunted by trauma and heartbreak, returns to the family fold. With the re-emergence of buried memories comes a reckoning, and the family is forced to confront the personal and political betrayals that tore them apart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSaleem Haddad’s second novel, after his acclaimed debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOne Last Drink at Guapa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, spans continents and decades—from 1950s’ Baghdad to contemporary London, from the Tigris River to Yemeni refugee camps. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFloodlines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is at once an intimate family drama and, in its scope, a modern epic. It is a rare novel that bridges the historic and the immediate and is a heartfelt meditation on what it means to belong, to create, to endure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Tiger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44227875438627,"sku":null,"price":599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/3607\/9395\/files\/81FVN5PCLVL__SL1500__jpg.avif?v=1794646506","url":"https:\/\/champaca.in\/products\/floodlines","provider":"Champaca Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}