{"product_id":"stranger-in-your-own-city-a","title":"Stranger in Your Own City, A","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Orwell Prize winning journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad comes a searing and nuanced biography of a lost Iraq.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a people who once lived under the rule of a megalomaniac leader who shaped the state in his own image. Then one day, after yet another war, a foreign army invaded, toppled the leader, destroyed the state, and proceeded to invent a new country. This is the story of a people who watched with horror as their world fragmented into a hundred different cities, as walls rose between them and bodies piled in the streets. From the American invasion to the Arab Spring, ISIS and beyond, A Stranger in Your Own City offers a remarkable de-centring of the West in the history and contemporary situation of the region. What comes to the fore is the effect on the ground- the human cost, the shifting allegiances, the generational change. 'Shatters western assumptions . . . and offers cautious hope' The Observer 'Haunting' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42743877828642,"sku":"9781529157178","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0052\/0785\/1042\/files\/Copy-of-Book-Template---2024-06-22T102359-938.jpg?v=1719008664","url":"https:\/\/petronella.pro\/products\/stranger-in-your-own-city-a","provider":"Petronella's Gallery and Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}