I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody

ISBN-13: 9780872864573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 168 str.

Sinan Antoon; Rebecca C. Johnson; Sinan Antoon

Opis

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 Iraq under US occupation."