The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny

Steavenson, Wendell

ISBN 10: 0061721786 / ISBN 13: 9780061721786

Verlag: Collins, 2009

304 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0061721786

Inhaltsangabe:

“A masterly and elegantly told story that weaves together the Iraqi past and present.”

 —New York Times Book Review

 

“A first-class investigation…that tells the reader more about the tensions of living close to power in Saddam’s dictatorship.”

—Washington Post

 

The Weight of a Mustard Seed is an unprecedented and intimate account of Iraqi life under Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, revealed through the tragic story of one of the dictator’s loyal generals. Journalist Wendell Steavenson writes thrilling nonfiction with a novelist’s flair, offering a new perspective on life inside a totalitarian regime that is as moving, compelling, and dramatic as The Kite Runner and The Bookseller of Kabul.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Wendell Steavenson wrote for The New Yorker from Cairo for more than a year during the Egyptian revolution. She has spent most of the past decade and a half reporting from the Middle East and the Caucasus for the Guardian, Prospect magazine, Slate, Granta and other publications. Steavenson has written two previous books, both critically acclaimed: Stories I Stole, about post-Soviet Georgia, and The Weight of a Mustard Seed, about life and morality in Saddam's Iraq and the aftermath of the American invasion. She was also a 2014 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Steavenson currently lives in Paris.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate ...
Verlag: Collins
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Brand New