I'jaam - by Sinan Antoon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A risky and risqué prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p>In the tradition of Kafka's <i>The Trial</i> or Orwell's <i>1984, I'jaam</i> offers 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.</p><p> <b>Sinan Antoon</b> has been published in leading international journals and has co-directed <i>About Baghdad, </i> an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>The Nation</em>, <em>al-Ahram Weekly</em> and <em>Middle East Report</em>.</p>
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