HUKUMSHAHICHYA SAVLIT

Tells the story of General Kamel Sachet a decorated hero of the long Iran-Iraq war and a favourite of Saddam Husseins. This book reveals the emotional and psychological scars the Sachet family suffer as a result of decades spent living with war and repression. If you are unable to protect yourself from a tyrant how can you protect your family? And how does a proud man live with that knowledge? Reminiscent in part of Stasiland and The Bookseller of Kabul this is the story of one familys struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Husseins savage dictatorship. It is a career-defining book for Wendell Steavenson. In The Weight of a Mustard Seed Wendell Steavenson tells the story of General Kamel Sachet a decorated hero of the long Iran-Iraq war and a favourite of Saddam Husseins. As Steavenson reveals the emotional and psychological scars the Sachet family suffer as a result of decades spent living with war and repression she reaches towards the heart of a previously unspoken story of Iraq: a once prosperous nation reduced by Husseins megalomania and paranoia to bankruptcy corruption and impotence. The result is an intimate startling and gripping account of the slow destruction of Sachet his family and his country.