Engels | 22-02-2024 | 480 pages
9781529157178
Paperback / softback
From 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.
EAN : | 9781529157178 |
Uitgever : | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Publicatiedatum : | 22-02-2024 |
Formaat : | Paperback / softback |
Taal : | Engels |
Voorraad : | Bestelbaar |
Aantal bladzijden : | 480 |