East winds, west winds

By Mahdī ʻĪsá Ṣaqr

Subjects: Conditions sociales, Petroleum industry and trade, Social conditions, Fiction, Pétrole, British, Roman, Text, Romans, nouvelles, Britanniques, Industrie et commerce

Description: Set among the oil wells of the Basra region of southern Iraq, where the writer spent much of his working life, this novel draws on the author's own experiences to paint a picture at once subtle and vivid of relations between the British and their local employees in the 1950s.