A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War

di Ghaith Abdul-Ahad (Autore)

Cornerstone, 2024

'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

• Autore: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
• Editore: Cornerstone
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 480 p.
• Dimensioni: 196 x 128 mm
• Peso: 340 gr.
• EAN: 9781529157178

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