{"product_id":"9781529157178","title":"Stranger In Your Own City \/P","description":"\u003cp\u003eBook Title: Stranger In Your Own City \/P \u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529157178 \u003cbr\u003eBy Author(s):GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD \u003cbr\u003eBy Publisher:RANDOM HOUSE UK \u003cbr\u003eFormat:PB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSELECTED BY THE\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\u003cbr\u003eONE OF\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePROSPECT'S\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ePOLITICS \u0026amp; REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWILLIAM DALRYMPLE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A journalistic marvel' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJAMES MEEK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A powerful, unforgettable book' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNADIFA MOHAMMED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Stranger in Your Own City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Haunting' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"GHAITH ABDUL-AHAD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757992653023,"sku":null,"price":10.8,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0410\/9529\/9228\/files\/810BGAxxzzL._SY522.jpg?v=1775114203","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmarket.com.sg\/products\/9781529157178","provider":"BookMarket","version":"1.0","type":"link"}