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A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
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Winner of the 2024 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards
Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place
''Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece'' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
''A journalistic marvel'' JAMES MEEK
''A powerful, unforgettable book'' NADIFA MOHAMMED
From Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq
This 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
Weight | 200.000000 |
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Author | Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith |
Availability | IP |
Department | Literature |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781529157178 |
Pages | 224 |
Published | 22/02/2024 |
Publisher | Cornerstone |
Section | Literature |
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