{"product_id":"the-book-of-collateral-damage-paperback","title":"The Book of Collateral Damage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJonathan Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon's most complex work to date.\" --Malcolm Forbes, \u003ci\u003eThe National\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present--destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes--in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSinan Antoon\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, novelist, and translator, and an associate professor at New York University. Born in Baghdad, he left Iraq after the Gulf War\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Corpse Washer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning translator of works by authors including Ahmed Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, and Youssef Ziedan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.5 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769578422560,"sku":"9780300251753","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6c31e7d255e262fb271ff3e5026cb9de.webp?v=1780351172","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-book-of-collateral-damage-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}