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ISBN10: 0593536886, ISBN13: 9780593536889, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalists powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war.An essential insider account of the unravelling of IraqDriven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahadoffers an overdue reckoning with a broken history.Declan Walsh, author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious StateA vital archive of a time and place in historyImpossible to put down.Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise The history of reportage has often depended on outsidersRyszard Kapuscinski witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present?A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahads vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraqs history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a ...
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ISBN10: 0593536886, ISBN13: 9780593536889, [publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc] Hardcover 409 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0593536886, ISBN13: 9780593536889, [publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalists powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war.An essential insider account of the unravelling of IraqDriven by his intimate knowledge and deep personal stakes, Abdul-Ahadoffers an overdue reckoning with a broken history.Declan Walsh, author of The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious StateA vital archive of a time and place in historyImpossible to put down.Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise The history of reportage has often depended on outsidersRyszard Kapuscinski witnessing the fall of the shah in Iran, Frances FitzGerald observing the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam. What would happen if a native son was so estranged from his city by war that he could, in essence, view it as an outsider? What kind of portrait of a war-wracked place and people might he present?A Stranger in Your Own City is award-winning writer Ghaith Abdul-Ahads vivid, shattering response. This is not a book about Iraqs history or an inventory of the many Middle Eastern wars that have consumed the nation over the past several decades. This is the tale of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniacal leader who shaped the state in his own image; a people who watched a foreign army invade, topple that leader, demolish the state, and then invent a ...
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