Antoon Sinan
Antoon Sinan - The Book Of Collateral Damage - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: The Book Of Collateral Damage
Author(s): Antoon Sinan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300251753
Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Date: 4/21/2020
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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.
Title: The Book Of Collateral Damage
Author(s): Antoon Sinan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300251753
Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Date: 4/21/2020
Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
