Mahdi Issa al-Saqr was born in Basra in 1930. He worked as a translator with the Basra Petroleum Company and later as personnel superintendent of the Marine Trans- portation Establishment. He resigned in 1980 to devote himself exclusively to writing. He died in Baghdad in 2006.
'Paul Starkey's elegant and lucid translation does justice to Al-Saqrs's absorbing and subtle portrait of British colonialism in action. It shows the muted aspirations of the post-war-generation of educated Iraqis with emotional and sociological acuity.' -- Alev Adil Independent 20100630
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