A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family's tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.

An exquisite multi-generational memoir, LATE FOR TEA AT THE DEER PALACE is the dramatic tale of an extraordinary family's century in Iraq, bringing to life the fascinating history of a nation from its days as a province of the Ottoman Empire, through to European domination, independence, revolution, dictatorship and the wars that have seized the attention of the modern world. Bringing together east and west, the poetic and the political, Chalabi recreates an old world that has been lost behind recent headlines of war, occupation and suicide bombings.