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Saddam City

Saddam City

Current price: $12.95
Publication Date: April 1st, 2004
Publisher:
Saqi Books
ISBN:
9780863563508
Pages:
120

Description

One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next fifteen months he witnesses countless scenes of torture as he himself is brutally interrogated, shuffled from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family.

The question of his guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. 'How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks.

Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of wanton treatment by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid, Mustafa's story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny.