Stranger In Your Own City /P

Stranger In Your Own City /P

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Book Title: Stranger In Your Own City /P
ISBN: 9781529157178
By Author(s):GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD
By Publisher:RANDOM HOUSE UK
Format:PB

SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
ONE 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