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Notes from a Lost Country

Antoon Sinan
Innbundet / 2026 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781849251235
Publisert
2026-04-02
Utgiver
Saqi Books
Vekt
350 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Antoon Sinan

Biografisk notat

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator. He left Iraq in 1991 after the Gulf War. Antoon received his PhD from Harvard in 2006 and currently lives in New York, where he is associate professor of Arabic literature at NYU. He is the cofounder and co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya (http://www.jadaliyya.com/) which is published in Arabic and English. His novel Index (Yale UP, 2015) was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and The Pomegranate Alone (The Corpse Washer, Yale UP, 2014) was awarded The Arabic Literature Prize 2017 and the World Arab Institute-Lagardère.

Notes from a Lost Country

Antoon Sinan
Innbundet / 2026 / Engelsk
Antoon Sinan
Innbundet / 2026 / Engelsk
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Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. But Sami keeps losing his way. Every day he sinks deeper into dementia and old memories of life in Iraq before the war.

Omar arrives in the US with a fake identity and no friends or family. Having run away from the Iraqi army, he has been branded a deserter and his ear brutally cut off. Omar carries this mark of shame with him and refuses to talk about the past. He dreams of getting his ear, and his dignity, back.

When their paths cross at least one of them knows that they have met before – if only he could remember where. Exploring the aftermath of war and how the past haunts new beginnings, Notes from a Lost Country creates a moving portrait of life in exile.

Les mer
In Brooklyn, retired doctor Sami drifts into dementia, reliving his life in Iraq. Omar, a scarred deserter seeking a new start, hides his past. When their paths cross, buried memories resurface in this poignant story of exile, war, and the struggle to remember and belong.
Les mer
'Ravishing, heartbreaking, and often absurd, Notes From a Lost Country is a novel on exile in all its meanings, panoramic in implications but distilled down like a fine elixir. I adored it.'
‘Sinan Antoon is one of the great fiction writers of our time.’

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Sami, a retired doctor, lives with his son and grandchildren in Brooklyn. But Sami keeps losing his way. Every day he sinks deeper into dementia and old memories of life in Iraq before the war.

Omar arrives in the US with a fake identity and no friends or family. Having run away from the Iraqi army, he has been branded a deserter and his ear brutally cut off. Omar carries this mark of shame with him and refuses to talk about the past. He dreams of getting his ear, and his dignity, back.

When their paths cross at least one of them knows that they have met before – if only he could remember where. Exploring the aftermath of war and how the past haunts new beginnings, Notes from a Lost Country creates a moving portrait of life in exile.

Les mer
In Brooklyn, retired doctor Sami drifts into dementia, reliving his life in Iraq. Omar, a scarred deserter seeking a new start, hides his past. When their paths cross, buried memories resurface in this poignant story of exile, war, and the struggle to remember and belong.
Les mer
'Ravishing, heartbreaking, and often absurd, Notes From a Lost Country is a novel on exile in all its meanings, panoramic in implications but distilled down like a fine elixir. I adored it.'
‘Sinan Antoon is one of the great fiction writers of our time.’

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781849251235
Publisert
2026-04-02
Utgiver
Saqi Books
Vekt
350 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Antoon Sinan

Biografisk notat

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, and translator. He left Iraq in 1991 after the Gulf War. Antoon received his PhD from Harvard in 2006 and currently lives in New York, where he is associate professor of Arabic literature at NYU. He is the cofounder and co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya (http://www.jadaliyya.com/) which is published in Arabic and English. His novel Index (Yale UP, 2015) was longlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and The Pomegranate Alone (The Corpse Washer, Yale UP, 2014) was awarded The Arabic Literature Prize 2017 and the World Arab Institute-Lagardère.

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