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The Rope : A Novel de Kanan Makiya (2016, couverture rigide)
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9781101870471
- Book Title
- Rope : a Novel
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 4.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, here is a gritty and unflinching novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American invasion, as seen through the eyes of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could never have anticipated. When the nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on April 10, 2003, the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein, he finds himself swept up in the tumultuous politics of the American occupation and is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father, who disappeared into the Tyrant's gulag in 1991. When he was a child, his questions about his father were ignored by his mother and his uncle, in whose house he was raised. Older now, he is fighting in his uncle's Army of the Awaited One, which is leading an insurrection against the Occupier. He slowly begins to piece together clues about his father's fate, which turns out to be intertwined with that of the mysterious corpse. But not until the last hour before the Tyrant's execution is the narrator given the final piece of the puzzle--from Saddam Hussein himself. The Rope is both a powerful examination of the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal, victimhood, secrecy, and loss, and an enduring story about the haste with which identity is cobbled together and then undone. Told with fearless honesty and searing intensity, The Rope will haunt its readers long after they finish the final page.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101870478
ISBN-13
9781101870471
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215335209
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rope : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10 in
Item Height
4.1 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3613.A357r67 2016
Reviews
"Mr. Makiya loves Iraq--or the idea of what a new Iraq could be--and his rage and despair at the brutality that has seized his country comes through on every page....Mr. Makiya's writing is sublime when his subject is the slide from decency to evil. His depiction of the descent into barbarism of Haider, one of the central character's closest friends, is as good a portrait as we are likely to get of Iraq's post-Saddam savagery....The book is an indispensable guide into the 'warehouses of cruelty' of the modern Middle East and gives us a better idea of why Iraq failed after being liberated from a tyrant, and why Sunnis and Shiites now so eagerly kill each other." -- Reuel Marc Gerecht, Wall Street Journal "Americans know very little about Iraq, and this was as true at the beginning of our war there as it is today. Now Kanan Makiya has written a fictionalized narrative of the first years of the American occupation, seen from the Iraqi (and the Shi'ite) side. His book is a remarkable evocation of those terrible years, simultaneously informative, scary, worrying, and deeply engaging. Start reading it and you won't stop--and don't skip the beautifully written, morally and politically powerful personal note at the end." --Michael Walzer, author of Just and Unjust Wars "A searing novel of the Iraq War from an Iraqi point of view, with Saddam Hussein in a starring role. Our narrator has no name, but The Tyrant certainly does, and it is on every tongue. As Makiya's novel opens, Saddam's body is swaying in the breeze, having been transferred by The Occupier to the Iraqis as 'proof of our independence from the American invaders.' Into that brief phrase a whole world is packed: the Americans are unwanted conquerors, the rulers of Iraq are exiles driven to hang Saddam out of 'revenge, or blood libel, or communal solidarity,' and a once-coherent nation, for better or worse, is now splintered irreparably.... A close study of the psychology of oppression and dictatorship, of a piece with the author's now classic nonfiction study Republic of Fear (1989)." --Kirkus Reviews, *starred review* "Astutely challenging...deeply resonant....Nuanced and essential reading for every global citizen, this novel proves that all politics are personal." --Booklist "Powerful....By keeping his creation torn and anguished as he digests unpalatable facts, Makiya forces us to sympathise, to see his character as a human as well as a soldier, a lost boy gulled into believing anything and duped into doing the dirty work of others." --Malcolm Forbes, The National (Abu Dhabi), "The Dust that Falls from Dreams is modeled on John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. . . . A feast of a novel . . . This book is very much a hit." --John Sutherland, The Times (London) "De Berniéres . . . spins a masterful tale that bridges two worlds and delineates the apocalyptic abyss in between. . . . This heartrending saga of love, loss, and endurance paints a vivid portrait of the steep price paid by an entire generation of young men and women who participated in and endured the Great War." --Margaret Flanagan, Booklist
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-026187
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23
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