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008 150720s2016 nyu b 000 1 eng
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020 $a1101870478$qhardcover
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035 $a(NNC)11881998
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050 00 $aPS3613.A357$bR67 2016
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC014000$aFIC037000$aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMakiya, Kanan,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe rope /$cKanan Makiya.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2016]
300 $aix, 319 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood. A nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein. Swept up in the tumultuous politics of the American occupation, he is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father who disappeared in the tyrant's Gulag in 1991. His questions about his father, like those surrounding the mysterious corpse outside his house, were ignored by his mother, and by his uncle, in whose house he was raised. But he is older now, and a fighter in his uncle's Army of the Awaited One, which is leading an insurrection against the occupation. Clues accumulate: a letter surreptitiously delivered to his mother during his father's imprisonment; stories told by his dying grandfather. Not until the last hour before the tyrant's execution, is the narrator given the final piece of the puzzle. It comes from Saddam Hussein himself. It is a story about loyalty and betrayal; victims turned victimizers; secrecy and loss. And about identity--the haste with which it is cobbled together, or undone, always at terrible cost. It is a story that will stay with readers long after they finish the final page"--$cProvided by publisher.
651 0 $aIraq$xPolitics and government$y2003-$vFiction.
651 0 $aIraq$xSocial conditions$y21st century$vFiction.
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650 7 $aFICTION$xPolitical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION$xLiterary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPolitics and government.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919741
650 7 $aSocial conditions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919811
651 7 $aIraq.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01205757
648 7 $aSince 2000$2fast
655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aHistorical fiction.$2lcgft
655 7 $aPolitical fiction.$2lcgft
852 00 $bglx$hPS3613.A357$iR67 2016