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But Aira goes further still -- converting the ironic allegory into a formidable parody of the expectations that all narrative texts generate -- by laying out the pathos of a man who between one night and the following morning is touched by genius

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Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Books are a transcendent exploration ofTitle: Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Author: Ghaith Abdul Ahad ISBN: 9780593536889 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An award winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of