A Stranger in Your Own City - Travels in the Middle East's Long War
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 480 |
| Format | 16,2 x 24,0 x 4,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 723 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781529151534 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52915153UA |
SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR
'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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An excellent and haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003 Charles Clover Financial Times