# A Stranger in Your Own City

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- Authors: [Ghaith Abdul-Ahad](https://www.bookquiver.com/ghaith-abdul-ahad)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-15-2915-717-8
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2024-02-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK 'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMED This is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image. Then one day, after yet another war, a foreign army invaded, toppled the leader, destroyed the state, and proceeded to invent a new country. This is the story of a people who watched with horror as their world fragmented into a hundred different cities, as walls rose between them and bodies piled in the streets. From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, A Stranger in Your Own City offers a remarkable de-centring of the West in the history and contemporary situation of the region. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground: the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. 'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' The Observer 'Haunting' Financial Times