The Book of Collateral Damage
Sinan Antoon; Jonathon Wright (ed)
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2019
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaGoulds Book Arcade, Sydney
AbeBooks seller since April 28, 2003
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 26.06
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303 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
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- Title
- The Book of Collateral Damage
- Author
- Sinan Antoon; Jonathon Wright (ed)
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven & London
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300228945
- ISBN 13
- 9780300228946
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism - World
“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.
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Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney
Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks seller since April 28, 2003
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Large shop within 4 miles of Sydney Opera House and close to Sydney University. First established in Sydney in 1967. Have remainders bought over those years, many ageing like good wine. We have many second hand books in all categories. Find us on Google Maps. Enter "Goulds Books Australia". We are at 536 King St, Newtown.
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Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney
NSW, Australia
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