An Iraqi In Paris - Rilegato

Shimon, Samuel

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ISBN 10: 9992142294 ISBN 13: 9789992142295

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011

Riassunto

A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood film-maker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris, where he beds down in a metro station. Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised, the extraordinary encounters he has with the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Beckett and a ghost from Père Lachaise Cemetery transform his own story into a captivating drama more compelling than anything on the big screen.

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Recensione:

'It is a wonderful text. Full of life and art. An autobiography full of humour, irony, noblesse and sadness. It reminds me of George Orwell's great book Down and Out in Paris and London' (Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building.)

A forgiving and powerful book (Times Literary Supplement, London.)

Startlingly funny ... always witty and humane (Boyd Tonkin The Independent)

'A cinematographic odyssey. At once amusing and touching, Samuel Shimon lets his gaze travel
with a camera's precision'

(Le monde des livres, Paris)

Throughout this careening, fast-paced, episodic narrative, Shimon never loses his poignant sense of humour. He consistently folds the absurdity of political violence into the intimacy of human relations' (Daily Star, Beirut)

A cunningly iconoclastic storyteller... with a keenly cinematographic and unflinching eye for detail... a relentless raconteur (Anton Shammas)

Descrizione del libro:

A young Iraqi writer sets out to become a Hollywood film-maker, only to end up as a refugee on the streets of Paris.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9992142294
• ISBN 13: 9789992142295
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320