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A Stranger in Your Own City

- Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Af: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Engelsk Paperback

A Stranger in Your Own City

- Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
Af: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 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

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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

Produktdetaljer
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
Forfatter(e): Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Forfatter(e) Ghaith Abdul-Ahad


Kategori Militærhistorie: konflikter efter anden verdenskrig


ISBN-13 9781529157178


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 480


Udgave


Længde 31mm


Bredde 128mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 22 feb 2024


Oplagsdato 22 feb 2024


Forlag Cornerstone

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