Description
| Product ID: | 9781529157178 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Stranger in Your Own City |
| Subtitle: | Travels in the Middle East’s Long War |
| Authors: | Author: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Reportage & collected journalism, Middle Eastern history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Middle Eastern history, Iraq War |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin (Cornerstone) |
| Publisher Name: | Cornerstone |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-22 |
