A Stranger in Your Own City
Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
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SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES and DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK of THE YEAR 2023WINNER of THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK of THE YEAR 2024ONE of PROSPECT's POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS of THE YEAR 2023'...
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SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES and DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK of THE YEAR 2023WINNER of THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK of THE YEAR 2024ONE of PROSPECT's POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS of THE YEAR 2023'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMEDFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost IraqThis is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image. Then one day, after yet another war, a foreign army invaded, toppled the leader, destroyed the state, and proceeded to invent a new country. This is the story of a people who watched with horror as their world fragmented into a hundred different cities, as walls rose between them and bodies piled in the streets. From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, A Stranger in Your Own City offers a remarkable de-centring of the West in the history and contemporary situation of the region. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground: the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. 'shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' The Observer'Haunting' Financial Times
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin (Cornerstone)
ISBN
9781529157178
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
480
Udgivelsesdato
22-02-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3163192
EAN nr.
9781529157178
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
31
Bredde (mm)
197
Længde (mm)
128
Vægt (g)
330