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A Stranger in Your Own City
- Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Engelsk Paperback
A Stranger in Your Own City
- Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Engelsk Paperback

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SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
ONE 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 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

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
480
ISBN-13:
9781529157178
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
152915717X
Udg. Dato:
22 feb 2024
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
128mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
Cornerstone
Oplagsdato:
22 feb 2024
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