The Book of Collateral Damage

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Pub Date 28 May 2019 | Archive Date 06 Jun 2019

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory
 
“Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon’s most complex work to date.” —Malcolm Forbes, The National

 
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.
 
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.
Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory
 
“Formally daring, stylistically inventive, this is Antoon’s most complex work to date.” —Malcolm...

A Note From the Publisher

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator, and an associate professor at New York University. Born in Baghdad, he left Iraq after the Gulf War. He is the author of several books, including The Corpse Washer, and his award-winning works have been translated into thirteen languages.

Jonathan Wright is an award-winning translator of works by authors including Ahmed Saadawi, Saud Alsanousi, and Youssef Ziedan.

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator, and an associate professor at New York University. Born in Baghdad, he left Iraq after the Gulf War. He is the author of several books, including The...


Advance Praise

"Sinan Antoon is one of the great fiction writers of our time."

Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night

"Sinan Antoon is a master storyteller and The Book of Collateral Damage reaffirms his place amongst some of our very best writers. Vividly imagined and sensitively told, this is a tale of one man's exile and return, and all the distances traveled to find a semblance of home."

Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze

"Mixing the past and the present of Arabic literature, Sinan Antoon leads a hallucinatory investigation into the territories of memory and tragedies of Iraq. A deep reflection on exile and the power of books."

Mathias Enard, author of Compass

"One of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world"

al-Ahram Weekly

"Sinan Antoon is one of the great fiction writers of our time."

Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night

"Sinan Antoon is a master storyteller and The Book of Collateral Damage reaffirms his...


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ISBN 9780300228946
PRICE $24.00 (USD)
PAGES 312

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