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Sto caricando le informazioni... Escape from Baghdad! (edizione 2015)di Saad Z. Hossain (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book is crazy. I want Bourbon & Skittles now, not necessarily together. Lol ( ) It took a little bit of time to get started with this. I think I was too hung up over the glossary at first--which is fabulous and will elicit giggles--but then I just went with it. This book is all over the place, and it WORKS. It's a healthy dose of grim war commentary (the Iraq War, specifically), black comedy, non-stop action, and fantasy ( Special thanks to Mahvesh Murad for reviewing it on her podcast, Midnight in Karachi. I've read a handful of works she's specifically recommended through her show (often during a sorely-missed segment, Under the Radar), and she has yet to lead me astray. ******** Read Harder: Set in the Middle East. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiGallimard, Folio SF (645)
"Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum that needs to be filled. Religious fanatics, mercenaries, occultists, and soldiers are all vying for power. So how do regular folks try to get by? If you're Dagr and Kinza, a former economics professor and a streetwise hoodlum, you turn to dealing in the black market. But everything is about to change, because they have inherited a very important prisoner: the star torturer of Hussein's recently collapsed regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him out of Baghdad. With the heat on and nothing left for them in Baghdad, they enlist the help of Private Hoffman, their partner in crime and a U.S. Marine. In the chaos of a city without rule, getting out of Baghdad is no easy task and when they become embroiled in a mystery surrounding an ancient watch that doesn't tell time, nothing will ever be the same. With a satiric eye firmly cast on the absurdity of human violence, Escape from Baghdad! features shades of Catch-22 and Three Kings while giving voice, ribald humor, and firepower to to people often referred to as, collateral damage."-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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