I'jaam : an Iraqi rhapsody / Sinan Antoon ; translated by Rebecca C. Johnson and Sinan Antoon ; with an introduction by Elias Khoury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antoon, Sinan, 1967-

Contributor:

Johnson, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Carol)

Standardized Title:

Iʻjām. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

97 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights, [2007]

Summary:

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 Trial or Orwell's 1984, I'jaam 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.

Sinan Antoon has been published in leading international journals and has co-directed About Baghdad, an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.

ISBN:

9780872864573

087286457X

OCLC:

82772683