Out of Mesopotamia

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Product Details
Price
$26.95  $25.06
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publish Date
Pages
240
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.4 X 1.0 inches | 0.7 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781617758607

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About the Author

Salar Abdoh was born in Iran and splits his time between Tehran and New York City. He is the author of the novels Tehran at Twilight, The Poet Game, and Opium; and he is the editor of Tehran Noir. He teaches in the MFA program at the City College of New York

Reviews
Abdoh's powerful novel follows an Iranian war reporter who is torn between his wearying job on the front lines and a civilian existence that he finds increasingly alienating. The book is as much a reflection on memory and art as it is a war story, and Abdoh's writing captures beautifully the absurdity of both the battlefield and modern life.-- "New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice"
An inherently fascinating read that echoes the devastated and devastating real world conditions of so many war torn populations in the Middle East, Out Of Mesopotamia by Salar Abdoh is one of those novels that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf.-- "Midwest Book Review"
Profound . . . With first-hand experience with militias in Iraq and Syria, Abdoh travels between war and peace in his novel, picking up on the in-between moments, the ones that are not glorified and where suffering is silent.-- "Arab News (Saudi Arabia)"
An unprecedented novel, one that captures the brutality, absurdity and, yes, beauty of war from the grounded perspective of an Iranian man straddling multiple worlds.-- "BOMB Magazine"
One of a handful of great modern war novels . . . These wars will not end until we look at what we are doing and what we have done. Abdoh's novel lifts the veil on the murderous insanity.--Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, for ScheerPost