{"product_id":"9781529157178","title":"A Stranger in Your Own City : Travels in the Middle East's Long War","description":"\u003cp\u003eSELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\n\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024\n\u003cbr\u003eONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS \u0026amp; REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE\n\u003cbr\u003e'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK\n\u003cbr\u003e'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMED\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' The Observer\n\u003cbr\u003e'Haunting' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin (Cornerstone)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226302853355,"sku":"EB_HI1100_D15-01_SIMS","price":23.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781529157178-1.jpg?v=1785765634","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/zh\/products\/9781529157178","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}