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The traveler and the innkeeper /
From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five. This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordere...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University of Cairo Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the Iraqi author of Cell Block Five. This timely, elegant novel's hero is an Iraqi secret police inspector who routinely uses enhanced interrogation techniques, which even he considers torture. Convinced that he is protecting society from anarchy, he is at peace with the world until ordered to interrogate a childhood friend, a journalist with possible links to violent subversives. Then he falls in love with his friend's wife. The plot of this novel, which was written in Iraq in 1976 and published in Arabic in Germany in 1989, is further complicated by street protests in Baghdad following. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 117 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1306492513 9781306492515 9781617974625 1617974625 9781617970580 1617970581 |