The Prince of the Marshes Tapa blanda - 2007
de Rory Stewart
Stewart chronicles his 11 months of negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure in an impoverished region of southern Iraq.
Resumen
In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.
The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant, he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, this book amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
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"Prince of the Marshes perfectly captures the topsy-turvy of post-invasion Iraq. It is a funny, humane, brilliantly observed, beautifully written narrative that should set the standard for a new generation of colonial literature." William Langewiesche, author of The Outlaw Sea and American Ground
"Rory Stewart s book is a wonderful piece of work. It made me laugh, it made me sad, and it made me angry. Stewart takes to the task of governance and the task of writing about it with delight in action--engaging with, fighting with, trying to work with, trying to be the man that he is among that which is normally painted as The Other. This balance of poetic and contemplative, tragic and comic, strikes gut and brain at once." James Meek, author of The People s Act of Love
"No one understands the tragedy of the occupation of Iraq better than Rory Stewart. He was there, and he writes about his experiences as an administrator in southern Iraq with humor, verve and deep insight." Michael Ignatieff
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Detalles
- Título The Prince of the Marshes
- Autor Rory Stewart
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 448
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Mariner Books, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2007-04-01
- Features Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780156032797 / 0156032791
- Peso 1.04 libras (0.47 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.1 x 5.34 x 0.82 pulgadas (20.57 x 13.56 x 2.08 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Iraq War, 2003-, Iraq - Description and travel
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Extracto
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times, 06/03/2007, Page 56
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