shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

Related Aisles


Original Essays | June 22, 2009

All posts by Bethany Moreton Culture War on Aisle 5? Wal-Mart, Evangelicals, and "Extreme Capitalism"

"In the 'culture wars' narrative of the Republican ascendancy, this slippage represents the greatest con in recent history: while you rush to defend marriage or protect the unborn, please pay no attention to the financier behind the curtain." Continue »


  1. $19.56 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Ships free on qualified orders.
$11.95
TRADE PAPER, NEW
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Burnside Literature- A to Z
6 Local Warehouse Literature- A to Z
2 Remote Warehouse Literature- A to Z


I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody

by Sinan Antoon

I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 Trialor Orwell's 1984, I'jaamoffers 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 Antoonhas been published in leading international journals and has co-directed About Baghdad,an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.

About the Author

Sinan Antoon was born in Baghdad, Iraq. After the 1991 Gulf War, he left Iraq and settled in the US where he studied Arabic Literature at Georgetown and Harvard. His poems and essays (Arabic and English) have been published in leading journals and newspapers in the Arab world, as well as The Nation, al-Ahram Weekly and Middle East Report.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780872864573
Subtitle:
An Iraqi Rhapsody
Author:
Antoon, Sinan
Translator:
Johnson, Rebecca C.
Author:
Antun, Sinan
Publisher:
City Lights Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Fiction
Publication Date:
June 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
97
Dimensions:
754x503x37 29

Other books you might like

  1. $14.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  2. $7.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  3. $24.95 New Hardcover add to wish list

    The Help

    Kathryn Stockett
  4. $9.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Finding Nouf

    Zoe Ferraris
  5. $8.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Kartography

    Kamila Shamsie
  6. $5.00 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    An Equal Music

    Vikram Seth
  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.