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

Steavenson, Wendell

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ISBN 10: 0061721786 ISBN 13: 9780061721786

Casa editrice: Collins, 2009

Riassunto

An intimate account of Iraqi life under Saddam Hussein's regime, written from the perspective of one of his loyal generals, describes Kamael Sachet's regret over his role in Hussein's terror regime, his refusal to let his sons join the military, and his relationships with such associates as the head of the Republican Guard and a director of Abu Ghraib prison.

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Recensione:

“Steavenson is a talented writer and her reconstruction of Sachet’s story is staggering in its revelation of a collective psychological trauma that continues to grip a nation.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“[The Weight of a Mustard Seed] weaves a fascinating account of how good men went terribly wrong... echoing works by Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi and Stanley Milgram. A tenacious attempt to answer the question, ‘How do ordinary little human cogs make up a torture machine?’” (Kirkus Reviews)

Praise for STORIES I STOLE: “A remarkable first effort from a writer to watch.” (Publishers Weekly)

Praise for STORIES I STOLE: “Lovely...Stories I Stole, like the works of Bruce Chatwin or Ryszard Kapuçinski, is poised somewhere between memoir and ethnography...The great heart of the book, though, belongs to the people [Steavenson] met.” (Time Out New York)

Praise for STORIES I STOLE: “[This] unusual and beautifully worded tale is, mercifully, nothing like the usual foreign correspondent’s end-of-term book...[An] accomplished narrative-part travelogue, part love story...When [Steavenson] tells Georgian people’s stories, you hear real voices.” (The Times (London))

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Collins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061721786
• ISBN 13: 9780061721786
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288