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I'Jaam
Sinan Antoon
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Description for I'Jaam
Paperback. A risky and risque prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 133.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864573
SKU
V9780872864573
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About Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon was born in Baghdad, Iraq. After the 1991 Gulf War, he left Iraq and settled in the US where he studied Arabic Literature at Georgetown and Harvard. His poems and essays (Arabic and English) have been published in leading journals and newspapers in the Arab world, as well as The Nation, al-Ahram Weekly and Middle East Report.
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