The book of collateral damage
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Published
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2019].
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Book
ISBN
9780300228946, 0300228945
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303 pages ; 20 cm.
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Published
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2019].
Language
English
ISBN
9780300228946, 0300228945
Notes
General Note
Originally published in Arabic in 2016 as Fihris by Dar al-Jamal, Baghdad/Beirut.
Description
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory. Widely-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.
Language
Translated to English from the Arabic.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Chatham Borough-Chatham Township Library - Adult Fiction | FIC ANTOON | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Antoon, S. (2019). The book of collateral damage . Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Antoon, Sinan, 1967-. 2019. The Book of Collateral Damage. Yale University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Antoon, Sinan, 1967-. The Book of Collateral Damage Yale University Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Antoon, Sinan. The Book of Collateral Damage Yale University Press, 2019.
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