الكاتب: Sinan Antoon
التقييم:3.57
تاريخ النشر: 1-6-2007
An inventory of the General Security headquarters in central Baghdad reveals an obscure manuscript. Written by a young man in detention, the prose moves from prison life, to adolescent memories, to frightening hallucinations, and what emerges is a portrait of life in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.<br /><br />In the tradition of Kafka’s <i>The Trial</i> or Orwell’s <i>1984, I’jaam</i> offers insight into life under an oppressive political regime and how that oppression works. This is a stunning debut by a major young Iraqi writer-in-exile.<br /><br /><b>Sinan Antoon</b> has been published in leading international journals and has co-directed <i>About Baghdad,</i> an acclaimed documentary about Iraq under US occupation.
