A Stranger in Your Own City

Travels in the Middle East's Long War

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Beschreibung

<p><b>SELECTED BY THE <i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i> AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023<br>WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024<br>ONE OF <i>PROSPECT'S</i> POLITICS &amp; REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023</b><br><br>'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' <b>WILLIAM DALRYMPLE</b><br>'A journalistic marvel' <b>JAMES MEEK</b><br>'A powerful, unforgettable book' <b>NADIFA MOHAMMED</b><br><br><b>From Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq</b><br><br>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.<br><br>From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, <i>A Stranger in Your Own City</i> 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.<br><br>'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' <b><i>The Observer</i></b><br>'Haunting' <b><i>Financial Times</i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529157178

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

191 x 130 x 47 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd