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A Stranger in Your Own City
Travels in the Middle East’s Long War
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: RLN536G
EAN: 9781529157178
Auf Lager:
6
Zustellung: Di, 11.08.2026
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CHF 22.70
Beschreibung
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 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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2024
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Detailformat
- Taschenbuch
Anzahl Seiten
- 480