EAN: 9781529151534

A STRANGER IN YOUR OWN CITY - GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD...

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S NON-FICTION BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2023'Exquisite... a genuine
melancholy masterpiece' William Dalrymple  author of The Anarchy 'A powerful  unforgettable
book' Nadifa Mohamed  author of The Fortune Men -- A work of great beauty and tragedy from a
gifted storyteller and reporter. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq
it places the experience of ordinary civilians at its heart. 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. -- 'Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is a
journalistic marvel and a terrible joy as a writer  never wearying of the world as he maps its
cruelties. Eloquent and compassionate  vulnerable  scathing and funny' James Meek  author of To
Calais  in Ordinary Time 'A stunning piece of emotional and psychological topography  charting
the many clashing lives of pre- and post-invasion Iraq  a book that's at once difficult to read
and impossible to put down' Omar El Akkad  author of What Strange Paradise

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