The Book of Collateral Damage - Couverture souple

Antoon, Sinan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300251750 ISBN 13 : 9780300251753

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory

"Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date." --Malcolm Forbes, The National

The celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans.

Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present--destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes--in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator, and an associate professor at New York University. Born in Baghdad, he left Iraq after the Gulf War. He is the author of several books, including The Corpse Washer. Jonathan Wright is an award-winning translator of works by authors including Ahmed Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, and Youssef Ziedan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300251750
• ISBN 13: 9780300251753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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