I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody

I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody - Paperback

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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody - Paperback

I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody - Paperback

by Sinan Antoon
$14.95
$14.95

Book Overview

An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

In the tradition of Kafka's The Trial or Orwell's 1984, I'jaam offers insight into life under an oppressive political regime and how that oppression works. This is a stunning debut by a major young Iraqi writer-in-exile.

Sinan Antoon has been published in leading international journals and has co-directed About Baghdad, an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.
ISBN9780872864573
Author Sinan Antoon
PublisherCity Lights Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2007
LanguageENG- English
Pages168
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Sinan Antoon

Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi poet, novelist, translator, and scholar. His novels include I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, The Corpse Washer, The Baghdad Eucharist, and The Book of Collateral Damage. Antoon's works have been translated into sixteen languages. His essays and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Journal of World Literature. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish's In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators Association Award and his translation of Ibtisam Azem's The Book of Disappearance was long-listed for the 2025 International Booker Prize. He is an associate professor at New York University.

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