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The Story of a City
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April 2008
On Sale: April 7, 2008
176 pages ISBN: 1844672336 EAN: 9781844672332 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Fabulous and evocative portrait of the Iraqi city of Basra,
the "Venice of the Middle East" Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad
Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-
Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's
inhabitants differ from outsiders through their knowledge
of its streets and stories, so Khudayyir distinguishes
between the real city of Basra and the imagined city he
created through stories, experiences, and folklore. By
turns a memoir, a travelog, a love letter, and a
meditation, Basrayatha summons up a city long gone, yet
which lives on in the memories and imaginations of its
people. In the tradition of Calvino and Borges, Khudayyir's
mesmerizing work itself illuminates and enriches the story
of this magnificent city.
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