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      Saddam City

      by Mahmoud Saeed
      Published
      Apr 2004
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      120
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      One morning Mustafa Ali Noman, a teacher in Baghdad, is arrested as he reaches the school gates. For the next fifteen months he witnesses countless scenes of torture as he himself is brutally interrogated, shuffled from prison to prison and barred from contacting his family.

      The question of his guilt or innocence clearly irrelevant, Mustafa must fight to retain a grip on reality. ‘How do I know that I am not dreaming this?' he asks.

      Mahmoud Saeed's devastating novel evokes the works of Kafka, Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel in its account of wanton treatment by Saddam Hussein's feared secret police. Narrated in a straightforward manner that makes it all the more vivid, Mustafa's story testifies to the brutal arbitrariness of life under tyranny.

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      First Edition Apr 2004 Saqi Books ISBN13 9780863563508 ISBN10 0863563503
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      May 2013 ISBN10 B00CVAZ8D6
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