Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Books But Makima is not what

But Makima is not what she appears

But Aira goes further still -- converting the ironic allegory into a formidable parody of the expectations that all narrative texts generate -- by laying out the pathos of a man who between one night and the following morning is touched by genius

Allan Gurganus wrings truths-sometimes bruising

a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her

and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)

Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Books But Makima is not whatTitle: Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War Author: Ghaith Abdul Ahad ISBN: 9780593536889 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2023 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An award winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war. "An essential insider account of the unravelling of