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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.

A Stranger in Your Own City

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Cornerstone
      Published 1/22/2024
      ISBN-13 9781529157178
      978-1529157178
      ISBN-10 152915717X
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      Biography Reportage, journalism or collected columns

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

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