The Sirens of Baghdad
Date de parution : 2025
ISBN : 978 9961 64 540 6
14x22,5 cm
288 pages
1200 DA
A young Iraqi student, unable to attend college because of the war, sees American soldiers leaving a trail of humiliation and grief in his small village. Bent on revenge, hefleestothechaoticstreetsof Baghdadwhereinsurgentssoonrealizetheycanmake useofhisanger.Eventually heisgroomedforasecretterroristmissionmeanttodwarf the attacks of September 11th, only to find himself struggling with moral qualms. The Sirens of Baghdad is a powerful look at the effects of violence on ordinary people, showing what can turn a decent human being into a weapon, and how the good in human nature can resist.
"Nerve-wracking. . . . A blunt story line that has real passion behind it. The author's ear for Iraqi despair, fury and violation is keen."
The New York Times
Khadra's work has been compared to that of his Algerian compatriot Albert Camus, and The Sirens of Baghdad has a similar blaze of heat, the same heavy, insoluble questions. . . . The novel builds to a startling and wrenching finish." San Francisco Chronicle
YASMINA KHADRA is the author of more than 25 books, at least six of which have been published in English, among them The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack, both shortlisted for the IMPAC literary award. Khadra's work has been published in 45 countries. He has twice been honored by the Académie Française, winning both the Médaille de Vermeil (2001) and Grand Prix de littérature (2012). He lives in France. The New York Times describes Khadra as, "a writer who can understand man wherever he is."
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