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A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood filmmaker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris.
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Writer and publisher Samuel Shimon was born into a poor Assyrian family in Iraq in 1956. He left his country in 1979 to go to Hollywood and become a film-maker, travelling via Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Cairo and Tunis. In 1985 he settled in Paris as a refugee, before moving in 1996 to London, where he has lived ever since. He co-founded Banipal, the renowned international magazine of contemporary Arab literature in English translation and is the founder and editor of the popular literary website in Arabic www.kikah.com. He also edited Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World (2010). He is working now on his second novel The Militant Lingerie.
'It is a wonderful text. Full of life and art. An autobiography full of humour, irony, noblesse and sadness. It reminds me of George Orwell's great book Down and Out in Paris and London' Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building. A forgiving and powerful book Times Literary Supplement, London. Startlingly funny ... always witty and humane -- Boyd Tonkin The Independent 'A cinematographic odyssey. At once amusing and touching, Samuel Shimon lets his gaze travel with a camera's precision' Le monde des livres, Paris Throughout this careening, fast-paced, episodic narrative, Shimon never loses his poignant sense of humour. He consistently folds the absurdity of political violence into the intimacy of human relations' Daily Star, Beirut A cunningly iconoclastic storyteller... with a keenly cinematographic and unflinching eye for detail... a relentless raconteur -- Anton Shammas
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- PublisherBloomsbury Qatar
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 9992142294
- ISBN 13 9789992142295
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. The author has signed his first name on the front 'end-paper'. / Set around a young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood film-maker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris, where he beds down in a metro station. Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised, the extraordinary encounters he has with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Beckett and a ghost from Père Lachaise Cemetery transform his own story into a captivating drama more compelling than anything on the big screen. / This was translated from the Arabic by Piers Amodia & Christina Phillips. /// This is a revised English 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjackets edges are slightly rubbed. (310 pages & 9 pages of introduction). Originally published in Arabic in 2005 as 'Iraqi Fi Baris'. Seller Inventory # 10811
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