The Sirens of Baghdad (Audio)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781433229336 (1433229331)
Publish date: August 1st 2008
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 7
Edition language: English
Overwhelming and illuminating reading. It brings out the truth and the reality of Iraq I could have never imagined on my own.We follow a student in his home village, Kafr Karam, in the wake of the American invasion. He was forced to leave the university and now spends his days in a small village wit...
Nice and entertaining read, but I wasn't all that much impressed at the ending. The book builds up anger, depression and hate over almost two hundred pages, resulting in an overdetermined protagonist with a Cause. And then it only takes one newly introduced character, one deus-ex-machina, to sow a s...
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