A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Hutchinson Heinemann

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SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE 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 MOHAMMEDFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost IraqThis 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 Σελίδες: 480, Διαστάσεις: 16.2x16.2cm

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