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[Kanan Makiya] · The Rope: A Novel ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Rope: A Novel If you want to understand the Middle East, Iraq If you want to understand the Middle East, Iraq and the Shia in particular, read this book. As you are reading, check out the real people on the internet because they are all there. But it goes to the core of many people. There is need to be a victim and the need for revenge. Without that, they would have to take responsibility for the chaos they have caused.. Amazon Customer said Great Read. This book opened my eyes to an entirely different perspe
| Title | : | The Rope: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101870478 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
If you want to understand the Middle East, Iraq If you want to understand the Middle East, Iraq and the Shia in particular, read this book. As you are reading, check out the real people on the internet because they are all there. But it goes to the core of many people. There is need to be a victim and the need for revenge. Without that, they would have to take responsibility for the chaos they have caused.. Amazon Customer said Great Read. This book opened my eyes to an entirely different perspective of the Iraq war.. "Five Stars" according to AlbA11. If you've read his other books, this is a must read.
He is the author of several books, including the best-selling Republic of Fear, The Monument, The Rock, and the award-winning Cruelty and Silence. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. He is the Sylvia K. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. KANAN MAKIYA w
Told with fearless honesty and searing intensity, The Rope will haunt its readers long after they finish the final page.. When the nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on April 10, 2003, the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein, he finds himself swept up in the tumultuous politics of the American occupation and is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father, who disappeared into the Tyrant’s gulag in 1991. When he was a child, his questions about his father were ignored by his mother and his uncle, in whose house he was raised. But not until the last hour before the Tyrant’s execution is the narrator given the final piece of the puzzle—from Saddam Hussein himself. He slowly begins to piece together clues about his father&rsq
As Makiya’s novel opens, Saddam's body is swaying in the breeze, having been transferred by The Occupier to the Iraqis as ‘proof of our independence from the American invaders.’ Into that brief phrase a whole world is packed: the Americans are unwanted conquerors, the rulers of Iraq are exiles driven to hang Saddam out of ‘revenge, or blood libel, or communal solidarity,’ and a once-coherent nation, for better or worse, is now splintered irreparably…. Last week Sadr’s followers invaded the Shiite-led government “green zone” for the second time in a month, purportedly protesting against corruption but really seeking more power. Makiya’s writing is sublime when his subject is the slide from decency to evil. He believes that only some form of federalism—that rises above a strict Shiite-Sunni divide—can save the country. A close study of the psychology of oppression and dictatorsh
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