Inshallah (First Edition)

Oriana Fallaci (author, translator); James Marcus (translator)

ISBN 10: 0385419872 / ISBN 13: 9780385419871

Published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York, 1992

About this Item

First printing, with full number line. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($25.00) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inshallah (First Edition)
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385419872
• ISBN 13: 9780385419871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Following the bombing of the American Marine barracks in Beirut, an Italian soldier stationed in that strife-torn city comments upon the event and its reverberations

Reviews

Civil war-torn Beirut is the setting for Fallaci's ( A Man ) latest work, a powerful, labyrinthine study of human character in apocalyptic circumstances. The novel takes place in the fall of 1983, when a barracks bombing killed dozens of U.S. Marines. At the headquarters of the Italian peacekeeping contingent, a rich cast of characters confronts the unpredictable brutality of religious conflict. The unit's general, called Condor; Charlie, a self-styled counterespionage agent; Pistoira, a swaggering killer; Sugar, the bookish munitions expert, and other uniformed misfits struggle to survive an impossible mission. Rendering the complex antagonisms of contemporary Beirut, Fallaci shows a talent for incisively capturing classic human foibles, as one beleaguered soldier after another tries to negotiate the cultural borders of a chaotic city. In the novel's climactic scenes, the Italian troops, like the well-meaning armies of other nations, are obliged to withdraw before an inferno of religious fanaticism. In prose dense with details and asides, Fallaci starkly conveys Beirut's nihilistic atmosphere; her depiction of the futility of combat is acerbic, and her narrative fully reflects the ironies that emerge when men behave like beasts.
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