Book
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The book of collateral damage
Call Number
- FICTION ANTO (CEN, OSH)
Languages
Translated from the Arabic.
Publication Information
New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
303 pages ; 20 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
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.
Notes
"Originally published in Arabic in 2016 as Fihris by Dar-al-Jamal, Baghdad/Beirut"--Title page verso.